The Newe Testament dylygently corrected and compared with the Greke by Willyam Tindale, and fynesshed in the yere of our Lorde God A.M.D. & xxxiiij. in the moneth of Nouember.

The Gospell of Saincte Iohn. (Book John)

The Fyrst Chapter. ✚

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IN the beginnyn∣ge was the worde / & [ A] the worde was with God: & the worde was God. The same was in the begin¦nynge with God. All thin∣ges were made by it / & with out it / was made nothinge / that was made. In it was lyfe / & the lyfe was y^e lyght of men / & the lyght shyneth in the darcknes / but the darcknes comprehended it not.

There was a man sent from God / whose name was Iohn. The same cam as a witnes to beare witnes of the lyght / that all men through him myght beleve. He was not that lyght: but to beare witnes of the lyght. That was a true lyght / which lyghteth all men that come into the worlde. He was in y^e worl∣de / and the worlde was made by him: and yet the worlde knewe him not.

He cam amonge his (awne) and his awne* 1.1 receaved him not. But as meny as receaved [ B] him / to them he gave power to be the sonnes* 1.2 of God in y^t they beleved on his name: which were borne / not of bloude nor of the will of the flesshe / nor yet of the will of man: but of God.

And the worde was made flesshe and dwelt amonge vs / & we sawe the glory of it / as the glory of the only begotten sonne of y^e father / which worde was full of grace and verite. ⊢

✚ Iohn bare witnes of him and cryed sayin¦ge:* 1.3 This was he of whome I spake / he that cometh after me / was before me / because he* 1.4 was yer then I. And of his fulnes have all we receaved / even (grace) for grace. For the lawe was geven by Moses / but grace & truthe ca∣me by Iesus Christ. No mā hath sene God at eny tyme. The only begottē sonne / which is in y^• bo some of y^e father / he hath declared him. ⊢

✚ And this is the recorde of Iohn: When [ C] the Iewes sent Prestes and Levites from Ie¦rusalem / to axe him / what arte thou? And he confessed / and denyed not / and sayde playnly: I am not Christ. And they axed him: what then? arte thou Helyas? And he sayde: I am not. Arte thou a Prophete? And he answered no. Then sayd they vnto him: what arte thou that we maye geve an answer to them that sent vs: What sayest thou of thy selfe? He sayde: I am the * 1.5 voyce of a cryar in the wyl∣dernes / make strayght the waye of the Lorde / as sayde the Prophete Esaias.

And they which were sent / were of the pha¦rises. [ D] And they axed him / & sayde vnto him: why baptisest thou then / yf thou be not Christ nor Helyas / nether a Prophet? Iohn answe∣red them sayinge: I baptise with water: but one is come amonge you / whom ye knowe not he it is that cometh after me / whiche was be∣fore me / whose sho latchet I am not wor∣thy to vnlose. These thinges were done in Bethabara beyonde Iordan / where Iohn dyd baptyse. ⊢

✚ The nexte daye / Iohn sawe Iesus com∣myge* 1.6 vnto him / and sayde: beholde the lambe of God / which taketh awaye the synne of the worlde. This is he of whom I sayde. After me cometh a man / which was before me / for he was yet then I / and I knew him not: but that he shuld be declared to Israell / therfore am I come baptisynge with water.

And Iohn bare recorde sayinge: I sawe the [ E] sprete descende from heven / lyke vnto a dove / and abyde apon him / and I knewe him not.* 1.7 But he that sent me to baptise in water / the same sayde vnto me: apon whom thou shalt se the sprete descende and tary styll on him / the same is he which baptiseth with the ho∣ly goost. And I sawe and bare recorde / that this is the sonne of God.

The next daye after / Iohn stode agayne / & two of his disciples. And he behelde Iesus as he walked by / and sayde: beholde the lam∣be of God. And the two disciples hearde him speake / and folowed Iesus. And Iesus tur∣ned about / and sawe them folowe / & sayde vn∣to them: what seke ye? They sayde vnto him: Rabbi (which is to saye by interpretacion / Master) where dwellest thou? He sayde vn∣to them: come and se. They came and sawe where he dwelt: & abode with him that daye. For it was about the tenthe houre.

One of the two which hearde Iohn spea∣ke [ F] * 1.8 and folowed Iesus / was Andrew Simon Peters brother. The same founde his brother Simon fyrst / and sayde vnto him: we have

founde Messias / which is by interpretacion / annoynted: & brought him to Iesus. And Ie∣sus behelde him and sayde: thou arte Simon the sonne of Ionas / thou shalt be called Ce∣phas: which is by interpretacion / a stone.

The daye folowynge Iesus wolde goo into Galile / and founde Philip / & sayde vnto him / folowe me. Philip was of Bethsaida the cite [ G] * 1.9 of Andrew and Peter. And Philip founde Na¦thanael / and sayde vnto him. We have foun∣de him of whom Moses in the lawe / and the prophetes dyd wryte. Iesus the sonne of Io∣seph* 1.10 of Nazareth. And Nathanael sayde vn∣to him: can ther eny good thinge come out of Nazareth? Philip sayde to him: come and se.

Iesus sawe Nathanael commynge to him / and sayde of him. Beholde a ryght Israelite / in whō is no gyle. Nathanael sayd vnto him: where knewest thou me? Iesus answered / and sayde vnto him: Before that Philip cal∣led the / when thou wast vnder y^e fygge tree / I sawe the▪ Nathanael answered and sayde vnto him: Rabbi / thou arte the sonne of God / thou arte the kynge of Israel. Iesus answe∣red and sayd vnto him: Because I sayde vn∣to the / I sawe the vnder the fygge tree / thou belevest. Thou shalt se greater thinges then these. And he sayde vnto him: Verely / verely / I saye vnto you: herafter shall ye se heven open / and the angels of God ascendynge and descendynge over the sonne of man.

¶ The seconde Chapter.

ANd the thryde daye / was ther a maria∣ge in Cana a cite of Galile: and the mo¦ther [ A] * 1.11 of Iesus was there. And Iesus was called also & his disciples vnto the ma∣riage. And when the wyne fayled / the mother of Iesus sayde vnto him: they have no wyne. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman / what have I to do with the? myne houre is not yet come. His mother sayde vnto the ministres: what∣soever he sayeth vnto you / do it. And therwe∣re stondynge theare / sixe water pottes of stone after y^e maner of the purifyinge of y^e Iewes / contaynynge two or thre fyrkins a pece.

And Iesus sayde vnto them: fyll the water [ B] pottes with water. And they fylled them vp to the brym. And he sayde vnto them: drawe out now / and beare vnto the governer of the feaste. And they bare it. When the ruler of* 1.12 the feast had tasted the water that was tur∣ned vnto wyne / and knewe not whence it was (but the ministres which drue the wa∣ter knew) He called the brydegrome / and say¦de vnto him. All men at the beginnynge / set forth good wyne / and when men be dronke / then that which is worsse. But thou hast kept backe the good wyne / vntyll now.

This beginnynge of miracles dyd Iesus in Cana of Galile / and shewed his glory / and his disciples beleved on him. ✚ After that he descended in to Capernaum / and his mo∣ther / and his brethren / and his disciples: but contynued not manye dayes there.

✚ And the Iewes ester was even at hon∣de

/ and Iesus went vp to Ierusalem / & foun∣de* 1.13 syttynge in the temple / those that solde oxen and shepe and doves / and chaungers of money. And he made a scourge of small cor∣des / and drave them all out of the temple / with the shepe & oxen / and powred oute the changers money / and overthrue the tables / and sayde vnto them that solde doves: Have these thinges hence / & make not my fathers housse an housse of marchaundyse. And his* 1.14 disciples remembred / how y^• it was wrytten: the zele of thyne housse hath even eaten me.

Then answered the Iewes and sayde vnto [ D] him: what token shewest thou vnto vs / seyn∣ge* 1.15 that thou dost these thinges? Iesus ans∣wered and sayd vnto them: destroye this tem∣ple / & in thre dayes I will reare it vp agayne. Then sayde the Iewes: xlvi. yeares was this temple abuyldinge: and wylt thou reare it vp in thre dayes? But he spake of the tem∣ple of his body. Assone therfore as he was rysen from deeth agayne / his disciples remem¦bred that he thus sayde. And they beleved the scripture / and the wordes which Iesus had sayde.

When he was at Ierusalem at ester in the* 1.16 feaste / many beleved on his name / when they sawe his miracles which he dyd. But Iesus put not him selfe in their hondes / because he knewe all men / and neded not / that eny man shuld testify of man. For he knewe▪ what was in man. ⊢

¶ The .iii. Chapter. ✚

THer was a man of the pharises named Nicodemus a ruler amonge y^e Iewes. [ A] * 1.17 The same cam to Iesus by nyght / and sayde vnto him: Rabbi / we knowe that thou arte a teacher whiche arte come from God. For no man coulde do suche miracles as thou doest / except God were with him. Iesus ans∣wered and sayde vnto him: Verely verely I saye vnto the: except a man be boren a newe / he cannot se the kyngdom of God. Nicode∣mus sayde vnto him: how can a man be boren when he is olde? can he enter into his moders wombe & be boren agayne? Iesus answered: verely / verely I saye vnto the: except that a man be boren of water & of y^e sprete / he cannot enter into the kyngdome of god. That which is boren of the flesshe / is flesshe: & that which is boren of the sprete / is sprete. Marvayle not that I sayd to the / ye must be boren a newe. The wynde bloweth where he listeth / & thou hearest his sounde: but canst not tell whence he cometh and whether he goeth. So is eve∣ry man that is boren of the sprete.

And Nicodemus answered and sayde vnto him: how can these thinges be? Iesus answe∣red [ B] and sayde vnto him: arte thou a master in Israel / and knowest not these thinges? Vere∣ly verely / I saye vnto the / we speake that we knowe / and testify that we have sene: and ye receave not oure witnes. Yf when I tell you erthely thinges / ye beleve not: how shuld ye beleve / yf I shall tell you of hevenly thinges?

And no man ascendeth vp to heaven / but

he that came doune from heaven / that is to saye / the sonne of man which is in heaven.

And as Moses lifte vp the serpent in the* 1.18 wyldernes / even so must the sonne of man be* 1.19 lifte vp / that none that beleveth in him peris∣she: but have eternall lyfe. ⊢

✚ For God so loveth the worlde / y^t he hath* 1.20 geven his only sonne / that none that beleve [ C] * 1.21 in him / shuld perisshe: but shuld have everla∣stinge lyfe. For God sent not his sonne into the worlde / to condēpne the worlde: but that the worlde through him / might be saved. He that beleveth on him / shall not be condēpned. But he that beleveth not / is condempned all redy / because he beleveth not in the name of* 1.22 the only sonne of God. And this is the con∣dempnacion: that light is come into the worl∣de / & the mē loved darcknes more then light / because their dedes were evill. For every man that evyll doeth / hateth the light: nether com¦meth to light / lest his dedes shuld be repro∣ved. But he that doth truth / commeth to the light / that his dedes might be knowen / how that they are wrought in God. ⊢

After these thinges cam Iesus & his disci∣ples into the Iewes londe / & ther he haunted with them & baptised. And Iohn also bapti∣sed in Enon besydes Salim / because ther was moche water there / & they came & were bapti∣sed. For Iohn was not yet cast into preson.

✚ And ther arose a questiō bitwene Iohns [ D] disciples and the Iewes about purifiynge. And they came vnto Iohn / & sayde vnto him:

Rabbi / he that was with the beyonde Iordan / to whom thou barest witnes. Beholde the sa∣me baptyseth / & all mē come to him. Iohn an∣swered / and sayde: a man can receave no thin¦ge at all except it be gevē him frō heaven. Ye youre selves are witnesses / how that I sayde: I am not Christ but am sent before him. He that hath the bryde / is the brydegrome. But the frende of the brydegrome which stondeth by and heareth him / reioyseth greately of the brydgromes voyce. Tis my ioye is fulfilled. He must increace: & I muste decreace.

He that commeth from an hye is above all: He that is of y^e erth / is of the erth / & speaketh of the erth. He that cōmeth from heaven / is above all / & what he hath sene & hearde: that he testifieth: but no man receaveth his testi∣monye. How be it / he that hath receaved hys testimonye hath set to his seale that God is true. For he whom God hath sent / speaketh* 1.23 the wordes of God. For God geveth not the sprete by measure. The father loveth the son∣ne* 1.24 & hath geven all thinges into his honde. He that beleveth on the sonne / hath everla∣stynge lyfe: and he that beleveth not the son∣ne / shall not se lyfe / but the wrathe of God abydeth on him. ⊢

¶ The .iiii. Chapter.

ASsone as the Lorde had knowledge / [ A] how the Pharises had hearde / that Ie∣sus made and baptised moo disciples then Iohn (though that Iesus him selfe bap¦tised not: but his disciples) he lefte Iewry / &

departed agayne into Galile. And it was so that he must nedes goo thorowe Samaria. Then came he to a cyte of Samaria called Sichar / besydes the possession that Iacob ga∣ve to his sonne Ioseph. And there was Ia∣cobs* 1.25 well. Iesus then weryed in his iorney / sate thus on the well.

And it was about the sixte houre: & there [ B] * 1.26 came a woman of Samaria to drawe water. And Iesus sayde vnto her: geve me drynke. For his disciples were gone awaye vnto the toune to bye meate. Then sayde the woman of Samaria vnto him: how is it / that thou be∣inge a Iewe / axest drinke of me / which am a Samaritane? for the Iewes medle not with the Samaritans. Iesus answered and sayde vnto hir: yf thou knewest the gyfte of God / & who it is that sayeth to the geve me drynke / thou woldest have axed of him / and he wol∣de have geven the water of lyfe. The woman sayde vnto him. Syr thou hast no thinge to drawe with / and the well is depe: from when∣ce then hast thou y^• water of lyfe? Arte thou greater then oure father Iacob which gave vs the well / and he him silfe dranke therof / & his chyldren / and his catell:

Iesus answered & sayde vnto hir: whosoe∣ver drinketh of this water / shall thurst agay∣ne. But whosoever shall drinke of y^e water y^t I shall geve him / shall never be more a thyrst: but the water that I shall geve him / shalbe in him a well of water / springinge vp in to everlastinge lyfe. The womā sayd vnto him:

Syr geve me of that water / that I thyrst not / nether come hedder to drawe. Iesus sayde vn¦to her. Go and call thy husband / & come hyd¦der. The woman answered & sayde to him: I have no husband. Iesus sayde to her. Thou hast well sayd / I have no husbande. For thou haste had five husbandes / and he whom thou now hast / is not thy husband. That saydest thou truely.

The woman sayde vnto him: Syr I percea¦ve [ C] y^• thou arte a prophet. Oure fathers wor∣shipped in this mountayne: & ye saye that in Hierusalem is the place where men ought to worshippe. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman be∣leve me / the houre cometh / when ye shall ne∣ther in this moūtayne nor yet at Ierusalem / worshippe the father. Ye worshippe / ye wot not what: we knowe what we worshippe. For salvacion cōmeth of the Iewes. But the hou¦re commeth and nowe is / when the true wor∣shippers shall worshippe the father in sprete and in trouthe. For verely suche the father re¦quyreth to worshippe him. God is a sprete / and they that worshippe him / must worship∣pe him / in sprete and * 1.27 trouthe.

The woman sayde vnto him: I wot well [ D] Messias shall come / which is called Christ. When he is come / he will tell vs all thing{is}. Iesus sayde vnto hir: I that speake vnto the* 1.28 am he. And evē at that poynte / came his disci¦ples / & marvelled that he talked with the wo¦man. Yet no man sayde vnto him: what mea∣nest thou / or why talkest thou with her? The

womā then lefte her waterpot / and went her waye into the cite / & sayde to the men. Come se a man which tolde me all thinges y^t ever I dyd. Is not he Christ? Then they went out of the cite / & came vnto him.

And in y^e meane while his disciples prayed [ E] him sayinge: Master / eate. He sayde vnto thē: I have meate to eate / that ye knowe not of. Then sayd y^e disciples bitwene them selves: hath eny mā brought him meate? Iesus say¦de vnto them: my meate is to doo the will of him that sent me. And to fynnysshe his wor∣ke. Saye not ye: there are yet foure monethes / and then cōmeth harvest? Beholde I saye vn¦to you / lyfte vp youre eyes / & loke on y^e regiōs: for they are whyte all redy vnto harvest. And he y^e repeth receaveth rewarde / & gaddereth frute vnto life eternall: that bothe he that so∣weth / & he y^• repeth myght reioyse to gether. And herin is the sayinge true / y^t one soweth / & another repeth. I sent you to repe y^t wherō ye bestowed no laboure. Other men laboured / and ye are entred into their labours.

Many of the Samaritās of that cyte bele∣ved [ F] on him / for y^e sayinge of the womā / which testified: he tolde me all thinges y^t ever I dyd. Then when the Samaritās were come vnto him / they be sought him / y^e he wolde tary w^t thē. And he aboode there two dayes. And ma¦ny moo beleved because of his awne wordes / & sayd vnto the woman: Now we beleve not because of thy sayinge. For we have herde him oure selves / and knowe that this is even

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in dede Christ the savioure of the worlde. ⊢

After two dayes he departed thence / & wēt* 1.29 awaye into Galile. And Iesus him selfe te∣stified / that a Prophete hath none honoure in his awne countre. Then assone as he was co∣me into Galile / the Galileans receaved him which had sene all the thinges y^t he dyd at Ie¦rusalem at y^e feast. For they wēt also vnto y^e feast daye. And Iesus came agayne into Cana [ G] * 1.30 of Galile / wher he turned water into wyne.

✚ And ther was a certayne ruler / whose son¦ne* 1.31 was sicke at Capernaum. Assone as the sa¦me herde that Iesus was come out of Iewry into Galile / he wēt vnto him / and besought him / y^t he wolde descende / & heale his sonne: For he was evē readie to dye. Then sayde Ie¦sus vnto him: excepte ye se signes & wōdres / ye cānot beleve. The ruler sayd vnto him: Syr come awaye or ever y^• my chylde dye. Iesus sayde vnto him / goo thy waye / thy sonne li∣veth. And the mā beleved y^e wordes y^t Iesus had spokē vnto him / & wēt his waye. And ano¦ne as he went on his waye / his servants met him / & tolde him sayinge: thy chylde liveth. Then enquyred he of thē the houre when he begāne to amende. And they sayde vnto him: Yester daye the sevēthe houre / the fever lefte him. And the father knew that it was the sa∣me houre in which Iesus sayde vnto him: Thy sonne liveth. And he beleved / and all his housholde. ✚ Thys is agayne the secon∣de myracle / y^• Iesus dyd / after he was come oute of Iewry into Galile.

¶ The .v. Cha. ✚

AFter that ther was a feast of the Ie∣wes / & Iesus went vp to Ierusalem. [ A] And ther is at Ierusalem / by y^e * 1.32 slaugh¦ter housse / a pole called in y^e Ebrue tōge / Beth¦seda / havinge five porches / in which laye a greate multitude of sicke folke / of blinde / halt & wyddered / waytinge for the movinge of the water. For an angell wēt doune at a certayne ceason into y^e pole & troubled y^e water. Whoso¦ever then fyrst after the steringe of the water / stepped in / was made whoale of what soever disease he had. And a certayne mā was thea∣re / which had bene diseased .xxxviii. yeares. When Iesus sawe him lye / & knewe that he now longe tyme had bene diseased / he sayde vnto him. Wilt thou be made whoale? The* 1.33 sicke answered him: Syr I have no man whē the water is troubled / to put me into the pole. But in the meane tyme / whill I am about to come / another steppeth doune before me.

And Iesus sayde vnto him: ryse / take vp [ B] thy beed / & walke. And immediatly the man was made whole / and toke vp his beed / and went. And the same daye was the Saboth* 1.34 daye. The Iewes therfore sayde vnto him that was made whole. It is y^• Saboth daye / it is not laufull for the to cary thy beed. He answered them: he that made me whole / say∣de vnto me: take vp thy beed / and get the hen¦ce. Then axed they him: what man is that which sayde vnto the / take vp thy beed and walke. And he y^• was healed / wist not who it was. For Iesus had gottē him selfe awaye / be¦cause

y^t ther was preace of people in y^t place.

And after that / Iesus founde him in the tē [ C] ple / & sayd vnto him: beholde thou arte made whole / synne no moore / lest a worsse thinge happē vnto the. The man departed / & tolde y^e Iewes that yt was Iesus / whiche had made him whole. ✚ And therfore the Iewes dyd persecute Iesus & sought the meanes to slee him / because he had done these things on the Saboth daye. And Iesus answered them: ✚my father worketh hidder to / and I worke. Therfore the Iewes sought the moare to kill him / not only because he had broken the Sa∣both: but sayde also that God was his father / and made him selfe equall with God.

Then answered Iesus & sayde vnto them: [ D] verely / verely / I saye vnto you: the sonne can do no thinge of him selfe / but that he seeth y^e father do. For whatsoever he doeth / y^• doeth the sonne also. For the father loveth y^e sonne / & sheweth him all things / whatsoever he him selfe doeth. And he will shewe him greter wor¦kes then these / because ye shoulde marvayle. For lykwyse as the father rayseth vp y^• deed / & quickeneth them / even so the sonne quycke∣neth whom he will. Nether indgeth y^e father* 1.35 eny mā: but hath cōmitted all iudgemēt vnto the sonne / because that all men shuld honoure the sonne / evē as they honoure the father. He that honoureth not y^e sonne / the same honou∣reth not the father which hath sent him. Ve∣rely verely I saye vnto you: He that heareth* 1.36 my wordes / & beleveth on him that sent me /

hath everlastinge lyfe / & shall not come in to damnacion: but is scaped frō deth vnto lyfe. [ D]

Verely / verely I saye vnto you: the tyme shall come / & now is / when the deed shall hea∣re the voyce of the sonne of God. And they y^t* 1.37 heare / shall live. For as the father hath life in him silfe:so lyke wyse hath he geven to y^e son ne to have lyfe in him silfe:& hath geven him power also to iudge / in that he is the sonne of man. Marvayle not at this / y^e houre shall co¦me in the which all y^t are in the graves / shall heare his voice / and shall come forthe: they* 1.38 that have done good vnto the resurreccion of lyfe:& they that have done evyll / vnto the re∣surreccion of dampnacion. ⊢

✚ I can of myne awne selfe do nothinge at all. As I heare / I iudge / and my iudgemēt is iust / be cause I seke not myne awne * 1.39 will / [ E] but the will of y^e father which hath sent me. Yf I beare witnes of my selfe / my witnes is not true. Ther is a nother that beareth wit∣nes of me / and I am sure that the witnes* 1.40 whiche he beareth of me / is true.

Ye sent vnto Iohn / & he bare witnes vnto the truthe. But I receave not the recorde of man. Neverthelesse / these things I saye / that ye might be safe. He was a burninge & a shy∣ninge light / & ye wolde for a season have re∣ioysed in his light. But I have greater wit∣nes* 1.41 then the witnes of Iohn. For y^e workes which y^• father hath gevē me to fynisshe: the same workes which I do / beare witnes of me / that y^e father sent me. And the father him sil∣fe

which hath sent me / beareth witnes of me. Ye have not hearde his voyce at eny tyme / nor ye have sene his shape: therto his wordes have ye not abydinge in you. For whome he hath sent: him ye beleve not. [ G]

Searche the scriptures / for in them ye thin¦ke ye have eternall lyfe:& they are they which* 1.42 testify of me. And yet will ye not come to me / that ye might have lyfe. I receave not prayse of men. But I knowe you / that ye have not the love of God in you / I am comein my fa∣thers name / and ye receave me not. Yf ano∣ther shall come in his awne name / him will ye receave. How can ye beleve which receave honoure * 1.43 one of another / and seke not the ho∣noure that commeth of God only?

Doo not thinke that I wyll accuse you to my father. Ther is one that accuseth you / evē Moses in whom ye trust. For had ye beleved* 1.44 Moses / ye wold have beleved me: for he wro∣te of me. But now ye beleve not his writinge: how shall ye beleve my wordes. ⊢

¶ The .vi. Chapter. ✚

AFter these thinges Iesus wēt his waye* 1.45 over the see of Galile nye to a cyte cal∣led Tiberias. And a greate multitude [ A] folowed him / because they had sene his myra∣cles which he dyd on them that were disea∣sed. And Iesus went vp into a mountayne / & there he sate with his disciples. And ester / a feast of y^e Iewes / was nye. ✚ ✚ Then Iesus lifte vp his eyes / & sawe a greate cōpany co∣me vnto him / and sayde vnto Philip: whence

shall we bye breed y^t these might eate. This he sayde to prove him: for he him sylfe kne∣we what he wolde do.

Philip answered him / two hondred peny [ B] worthe of breed are not sufficient for them / y^e every mā have a litell. Then sayde vnto him / one of his disciples / Andrew Simon Peters brother. There ys alad here / which hath fyve* 1.46 barly loves and two fisshes: but what is that amōge so many? And Iesus sayde. Make the people sit doune: Ther was moche grasse in the place. And the men sate doune / in nom∣bre / about five thousande. And Iesus toke the breed / and gave thankes / and gave to the di∣sciples / and his disciples to them that were set doune. And lykwyse of the fysshes / as moche as they wolde.

When they had eatē ynough / he sayd vnto his disciples: gadder vp the brokē meate that remayneth: that nothinge be loost. And they gadered it to geder / and fylled twelve basket∣tes with the broken meate / of the five barly lo¦ves / which broken meate remayned vnto thē that had eaten. Then the men / when they had sene the myracle that Iesus dyd / sayde: This is of a trueth the Prophet that shuld come into the worlde. ⊢

When Iesus perceaved that they wolde co¦me / and* 1.47 take him vp / to make him kinge / he de¦parted agayne into a mountayne him silfe a lone. [ C]

And when evē was come / his disciples wēt vnto the see & entred into a shyppe / and went

over the see vnto Capernaum. And anōne it was darcke / & Iesus was not come to them. And y^e see arose with a greate winde y^t blew. And when they had rowē aboute a .xxv. or•• xxx. furlonge / they sawe Iesus walke on y^• see / & drawe nye vnto the shyp / and they were afrayed. And he sayde vnto them: It is I / be not a frayde. Then wolde they have receaved him into the shyp / and the ship was by & by at the londe whyther they went.

The daye folowynge / the people which sto¦de on the other syde of the see / sawe that ther was none other shyp theare / save y^t one wher¦in his disciples were entred / and that Iesus [ D] went not in with his disciples into the ship: but that his disciples were gone awaye alo∣ne. How be it / ther came other shippes from Tiberias nye vnto the place / where they ate breed / when the Lorde had blessed. Then whē the people sawe that Iesus was not there nether his disciples / they also toke shippin∣ge & came to Caparnaum sekinge for Iesus.

And when they had founde him on y^• other syde of y^• see / they sayd vnto him: Rabbi / whē camest thou hidder? Iesus answered them & sayde: verely verely I saye vnto you: ye seke me / not because ye sawe the myracles: but be¦cause ye ate of the loves / & were filled. ✚ La∣boure / not for y^• meate which perissheth / but for y^• meate that endureth vnto everlastynge lyfe / whiche meate y^• sonne of mā shall geve vnto you. For him hath god y^• father * 1.48 sealed.

Then sayd they vnto him: what shall we do

that we myght worke y^• workes of God? Ie∣sus answered & sayde vnto them. This is y^• worke of God / that ye beleve on him / whō he hath sent. They sayde vnto him: what signe shewest thou then / that we maye se & beleve the? What doest thou worke? Oure fathers dyd eate Manna in the desert / as yt is writtē: He gave them breed frō heaven to eate. Iesus sayde vnto thē: verely▪ verely I saye vnto you:* 1.49 Moses gave you breed frō heavē: but my fa∣ther geveth you the true breed frō heavē. For the breed of God is he which cōmeth doune from heavē and geveth lyfe vnto the worlde.

Then sayde they vnto him: Lorde / ever moo¦re geve vs this breed. And Iesus sayde vnto* 1.50 them: I am that breed of life. He that cōmeth to me / shall not honger: & he that beleveth on me shall never thurst. ✚ But I sayed vnto you: that ye have sene me / and yet beleve not. All that the father geveth me / shall come to me: & him y^t cometh to me / I cast not awaye. For I came doune frō heaven: not to do my∣ne awne will / but his will which hath sent me. And this is the fathers will which hath sent me / that of all which he hath geven me / I shuld loose no thinge: but shuld rayse it vp agayne at the last daye. And this is the wyll of him y^• sent me: y^t every man which seith y^• sonne & beleveth on him / have everlastinge lyfe. And I will rayse him vp at y^• last daye.

The Iewes then murmured at him / becau¦se he sayde: I am that breed which is come doune from heaven. And they sayde: Is not

this Iesus y^• sonne of Ioseph / whose father & mother we knowe? How ys yt then that he sayeth / I came doune from heavē? Iesus an¦swered & sayde vnto them. Murmur not be∣twene* 1.51 youre selves. ✚ No man can come to me except the father which hath sent me / dra¦we him. And I will rayse him vp at the last daye. It is written in the Prophetes / y^t they shall all be taught of God. Every man therfo¦re that hath hearde and hath learned of the fa¦ther commeth vnto me. Not that eny man* 1.52 hath sene y^• father / save he which is of God: the same hath sene the father.

Verely verely I saye vnto you / he that bele¦veth on me / hath everlastinge lyfe. I am that breed of lyfe. Youre fathers dyd eate Māna in y^• wildernes & are deed. This is that breed which cōmeth frō heavē / y^t he which eateth* 1.53 of it / shuld also not dye. I am that lyvinge breed which came doune from heavē. Yf eny man eate of this breed / he shall live forever. And the breed that I will geve / is my flesshe / which I will geve for the lyfe of y^e worlde ⊢

And the Iewes strove amōge them selves sayinge: How can this felowe geve vs his fles¦she to eate? Then Iesus sayde vnto them: Ve¦rely / verely I saye vnto you / except ye eate y^• flesshe of y^e sonne of man / & drinke his blou∣be / ye shall not have lyfe in you. Whosoever eateth my flesshe / & drinketh my bloude / hath [ F] eternall lyfe: & I will rayse him vp at the last daye. ✚ For my flesshe is meate in dede: & my bloude is drynke in dede. He that eateth my

flesshe & drynketh my bloude / dwelleth in me & I in him. As the lyvinge father hath sent me / even so lyve I by my father: and he that eateth me / shall live by me. This is the breed which cam from heavē: not as youre fathers have eaten Manna and are deed. He that ea∣teth of this breed / shall live ever. ⊢

These thinges sayd he in the synagoge as he taught in Capernaum. Many of his disci∣ples / when [ G] they had herde this / sayde: this is an herde sayinge: who can abyde the hearin∣ge of it? Iesus knew in him selfe / that his di∣sciples murmured at it / and sayde vnto them: Doth this offende you? What & yf ye shall se the sonne of man ascēde vp where he was before? It is the sprete that quyckeneth / the flesshe proffeteth nothinge. The wordes that I speake vnto you / are sprete and lyfe. But ther are some of you that beleve not. For Ie∣sus knewe from the begynnynge / which they were that beleved not / and who shuld betraye him. And he sayde: Therfore sayde I vnto you: that no man can come vnto me / except it were geven vnto him of my father.

From that tyme many of his disciples wēt backe / and walked no moore with him. Then sayde Iesus to the twelve: will ye alsoo goo awaye? Then Simon Peter answered: Ma∣ster to whom shall we goo? Thou haste the* 1.54 wordes of eternall lyfe / and we beleve and knowe / y^t thou arte Christ the sonne of the lyvinge God. Iesus answered them: Have not I chosen you twelve / & yet one of you is

the devyll? He spake it of Iudas Iscariot the sonne of Simon. For he it was y^t shuld betraye him / and was one of the twelve. ⊢

¶ The .vii. Chapter. ✚

AFter that / Iesus wēt about in Galile & wolde not go about in Iewry / for the Iewes sought to kill him. The Iewes tabernacle feast was at honde. His brethren therfore sayde vnto him: get y^e hence & go into [ C] Iewry y^t thy disciples maye se thy workes y^t thou doest. For ther is no man y^t doeth eny thinge secretly / and he him selfe seketh to be knowen. Yf thou do soche thinges / shewe thy selfe to the worlde. For as yet his brethrē beleved not in him.

Then Iesus sayd vnto them: My tyme is not yet come / youre tyme is all waye redy. The worlde cānot hate you. Me it hateth: be¦cause I testify of it / that the workes of it are evyll. Go ye vp vnto this feast. I will not go vp yet vnto this feast / for my tyme is not yet full come. These wordes he sayde vnto them and abode still in Galile. But assone as his brethren were goone vp / then went he also vp vnto the feast: not openly but as it were preve¦ly. Then sought him the Iewes at y^e feast / & sayde: Where is he? And moche murmuryn∣ge was ther of him amonge the people. So∣me sayde: He is good. Mother sayde naye / but he deceaveth the people. How be it no mā spake openly of him / for feare of the Iewes ⊢

✚ In y^e middes of the feast / Iesus went vp into the temple and taught. And the Iewes

marveylled sayinge: How knoweth he y^• scri∣ptures / seynge y^t he never learned? Iesus ans∣wered them / and sayde: My doctrine is not myne: but his that sent me. If eny man will do his * 1.55 will / he shall knowe of the doctrine / whether it be of God / or whether I speake of my selfe. He that speaketh of him selfe / se∣keth his awne prayse. But he that seketh his prayse that sent him / the same is true / and no vnrightewesnes is in him.

Dyd not Moses geve you a lawe / & yet no∣ne of you kepeth y^• lawe? Why goo ye abou∣te to kyll me? The people answered & sayde: thou hast the devyll: who goeth aboute to kyll the? Iesus answered and sayde to them: I ha∣ve done one worke / and ye all marvayle. Mo∣ses [ D] * 1.56 therfore gave vnto you circumcision: not because it is of Moses / but of the fathers.* 1.57 And yet ye on the Saboth daye / circumcise a man. If a man on the Saboth daye receave circumcision without breakinge of the lawe of Moses: disdayne ye at me / because I have* 1.58 made a man every whit whoale on the saboth daye? Iudge not after the vtter aperaunce: but iudge rightewes iudgement.

Then sayd some of them of Ierusalem: Is not this he whō they goo aboute to kyll? Beholde he speaketh boldly / and they saye no∣thinge to him. Do the rulars knowe in dede / that this is very Christ? How be it we knowe this man whence he is: but when Christ co∣meth / no man shall knowe whence he is.

Then cryed Iesus in y^e temple as he taught

sayinge: ye knowe me / and whence I am ye knowe. And yet I am not come of my selfe / but he y^t sent me is true / whom ye knowe not. I knowe him: for I am of him / & he hath sent me. Then they sought to take him: but no mā layde hondes on him / because his tyme was not yet come. Many of the people beleved on him & sayde: when Christ cometh / will he do moo miracles then this man hath done? [ E]

The pharises hearde that the people mur∣mured suche thinges about him. Wherfore y^• pharises and hye prestes sent ministres for∣the to take him. Then sayde Iesus vnto thē: Yet am I a lytell whyle with you / and then goo I vnto him that sent me. Ye shall seke me / and shall not fynde me: and where I am / thyther can ye not come. Then sayde the Ie∣wes bitwene thē selves: whyther will he goo / that we shall not fynde him? Will he goo amonge the gentyls which are scattered all a broade / and teache the gentyls? What ma∣ner of sayinge is this that he sayde: ye shall seke me / and shall not fynde me: and where I am / thyther can ye not come? [ F]

In the last daye / that great daye of the fea∣ste / Iesus stode and cryed sayinge: If eny man thyrst / let him come vnto me and drinke. He that beleveth on me / as sayeth the scriptu¦re / out* 1.59 of his belly shall flowe ryvers of wa∣ter of lyfe. This spak he of the sprete which they that beleved on him / shuld receave. ✚ For the holy goost was not yet there / becau∣se that Iesus was not yet glorifyed.

✚ Many of the people / when they hearde this sayinge sayd: of a truth this is a prophet Other sayde: this is Christ. Some sayde: shall Christ come out of Galile? Sayeth not the* 1.60 scripture that Christ shall come of the seed of David: & out of the toune of Bethleem whe∣re David was? So was ther dissencion amon¦ge the people aboute him. And some of them wolde have taken him: but no man layed hon¦des on him.

Then came y^e ministres to y^e hye prestes & [ G] pharises. And they sayde vnto thē: why have ye not brought him? The servaūte answered never man spake as this man doeth. Then answered thē the pharises: are ye also discea∣ved?* 1.61 Doth eny of the rulers or of the phari∣ses beleve on him? But the comen people whi¦che knowe not y^e lawe / are cursed. Nicodemus sayde vnto them: He that came to Iesus by nyght / and was one of them. Doth oure lawe iudge eny man / before it heare him / & knowe what he hath done? They answered & sayde vnto him: arte thou also of Galile? Searche and loke / for out of Galile aryseth no Pro∣phet. And every man went vnto his awne housse. ⊢

¶ The .viii. Chapter. ✚

ANd Iesus went vnto mounte Olivete & erly in y^e mornynge came agayne in [ A] to y^e temple & all the people came vnto him / & he sate doune & taught them. And the scribes & y^• pharises brought vnto him a wo∣man taken in advoutry / & set hyr in the myd∣des and sayde vnto him: Master / this woman

was taken in advoutry / even as the dede was a doyng. Moses in the lawe cōmaunded vs y^• suche shuld be stoned. What sayest thou ther¦fore?* 1.62 And this they sayde to tempt him: that they myght have / wherof to accuse him. Ie∣sus stouped doune / & with his fynger wrote on the grounde. And whyll they continued ••••ynge him / he lyfte him selfe vp / & sayde vn¦to them: let him y^t is amōge you w^t out synne cast the fyrst stone at her. And agayne he stou¦ped doune & wrote on y^• grounde. And assone* 1.63 as they hearde that / they went out one by one the eldest fyrst. And Iesus was lefte a lone / & the woman stondynge in y^t myddes. When Iesus had lyfte vp him selfe agayne / and sa∣we no man but the woman / he sayde vnto hyr. Woman / where are those thyne accusars? Hath no man condempned the? She sayde: No man Lorde. And Iesus sayde: Nether do I condempne the. Goo / & synne no moare. ⊢

Then spake Iesus agayne vnto them say∣inge: [ B] * 1.64 I am the light of the worlde. He that fo¦loweth me shall not walke in darcknes: but shall have the light of lyfe. The pharises say¦de vnto him: thou bearest recorde of thy sylfe thy recorde is not true. Iesus answered & say¦de vnto them: Though I beare recorde of my¦selfe yet my recorde is true: for I knowe whēce I came & whyther I goo. But ye cannot tell whēce I come / & whyther I goo. Ye iudge af∣ter y^• flesshe. I iudge noman / though I iudge yet is my iudgmēt true. For I am not alone: but I & the father that sent me. It is also writ¦ten

in youre lawe / that the testimony of two* 1.65 men is true. I am one y^t beare witnes of my¦selfe / and the father that sent me / beareth wit∣nes of me. Then sayde they vnto him: where is thy father? Iesus answered: ye nether kno∣we me / nor yet my father. Yf ye had knowen me / ye shuld have knowen my father also. [ C] These wordes spake Iesus in the tresury / as he taught in the temple / & noman layde hon∣des on him / for his tyme was not yet come. ⊢

Then sayde Iesus agayne vnto them. ✚ I goo my waye / & ye shall seke me / & shall* 1.66 dye in youre synnes. Whyther I goo / thy∣ther can ye not come. Then sayde the Iewes: will he kyll him selfe / because he sayth: why∣ther I goo / thyther can ye not come? And he sayde vnto thē: ye are frō beneth / I am from above. Ye are of this worlde / I am not of this worlde. I sayde therfore vnto you / that ye shall dye in youre synnes. For except ye bele∣ve that I am he / ye shall dye in youre synnes.

Then sayde they vnto him / who arte thou? [ D] And Iesus sayde vnto them: Even y^• very sa∣me thinge y^• I saye vnto you. I have many thinges to saye / & to iudge of you. But he y^• sent me is true. And I speake in y^• worlde / tho¦se thing{is} which I have hearde of him. They vnderstode not that he spake of his father.

Then sayde Iesus vnto them: when ye ha∣ve lyft vp an hye the sonne of man / then shall ye knowe that I am he / and that I do nothin¦ge of my selfe: but as my father hath taught me / even so I speake: and he that sent me / is

with me. The father hath not lefte me alone / for I do alwayes those thinges that please him. ✚ As he spake these wordes / many bele∣ved on him.

✚ Then sayde Iesus to those Iewes which beleved on him. If ye cōtinue in my wordes / then are ye my very disciples / & shall knowe the trueth: •• the trueth shall make you free. They answered him: We be Abrahams see∣de / and were never bonde to eny man: why sayest thou then / ye shalbe made fre.

Iesus answered them: verely verely I saye* 1.67 vnto you / that whosoever committeth synne / is the servaunt of synne. And the servaunt abydeth not in the housse for ever: But y^e son∣ne abydeth ever. If the sonne therfore shall make you fre / then are ye fre in dede. I knowe that ye are Abrahams seed: but ye seke mea∣nes to kyll me / because my sayinges have no place in you. I speake that I have sene with my father: and ye do that which ye have sene with youre father.

They answered and sayde vnto him: Abra∣ham [ E] is oure father. Iesus sayde vnto them. If ye were Abrahams chyldren / ye wolde do the dedes of Abraham. But now ye goo about io kyll me a man that have tolde you the tru∣the / which I have herde of god: this dyd not Abraham. Ye do the dedes of youre father.* 1.68 Then sayde they vnto him: we were not bor∣ne of fornicacion. We have one father / which is God. Iesus sayde vnto them: yf God we∣re youre father / then worlde ye love me. For I

proceaded forthe and come from God. Nether came I of my selfe / but he sent me. Why do ye not knowe my speache? Even because ye cannot abyde the hearynge of my wordes. [ F]

Ye are of youre father the devyll / and the lu¦stes of youre father ye will folowe. He was a murtherer from the beginnynge / and aboode* 1.69 not in the trueth / because ther is no trueth in him. When he speaketh a lye / then speaketh* 1.70 he of his awne. For he is a lyar / and the fa∣ther therof. And because I tell you y^e trueth / therfore ye beleve me not.

✚ Which of you can rebuke me of synne? If I saye y^e trueth / why do not ye beleve me? He that is of God / heareth goddes wordes ✚ Ye therfore heare them not / because ye are not of God.

Then answered the Iewes and sayde vn∣to him: Saye we not well that thou arte a Sa¦maritane / and hast the devyll? Iesus answe¦red:* 1.71 I have not the devyll: but I honour my father / and ye have dishonoured me. I seke not myne awne prayse: but ther is one that seketh and iudgeth.

Verely verely I saye vnto you / yf a man kepe my sayinges / he shall never se deeth. [ G] Then sayde the Iewes to him: Now knowe we that thou hast the devyll. Abrahā is deed / and also the Prophetes: and yet thou sayest / yf a man kepe my sayinge / he shall never tast of deeth. Arte thou greater then oure father Abraham which is deed? and the Prophetes are deed. Whome makest thou thy selfe?

Iesus answered: Yf I honoure my selfe / myne honoure is nothinge worth. It is my father that honoureth me / which ye saye / is youre God / & ye have not knowen him: but I knowe him. And yf I shuld saye / I knowe him not / I shuld be a lyar lyke vnto you. But I knowe him / and kepe his sayinge.

Youre father Abraham was glad to se my daye / & he sawe it & reioysed. Then sayde the Iewes vnto him: thou arte not yet••l. yere ol∣de / and hast thou sene Abraham? Iesus sayd vnto them: Verely verely I saye vnto you: yet Abraham was / I am. Then toke they vp sto∣nes / to caste at him. But Iesus hid him selfe / & went out of y^• temple. ⊢

¶ The .ix. Cha. ✚

ANd as Iesus passed by / he sawe a man [ A] which was blynde from his birth. And his disciples axed him sayinge. Ma∣ster / who dyd synne: this man or his father & mother / that he was borne blynde? Iesus answered: Nether hath this man synned / nor yet his father and mother: but that the wor∣kes of God shuld be shewed on him. I must worke the workes of him that sent me / whyll it is daye. The * 1.72 nyght cometh when noman can worke. As longe as I am in the worlde / I am the lyght of the worlde.

Assone as he had thus spoken / he spate on the grounde & made claye of the spetle / & rub∣bed [ B] the claye on the eyes of the blynde / & say∣de vnto him: Goo wesshe the in y^• pole of Sy∣loe / which* 1.73 by interpretacion / signifieth sent. He went his waye and wasshed / & cam agay∣ne

seinge. The neghboures and they that had sene him before how that he was a beg∣ger / sayde: is not this he that sate & begged? Some sayde: this is he. Other sayd: he is lyke him. But he him selfe sayde: I am even he. They sayde vnto him: How are thyne eyes opened then? He answered & sayde. The mā that is called Iesus / made claye / and anoyn∣ted myne eyes / and sayd vnto me: Goo to the pole Syloe and wesshe. I went and wesshed & receaved my syght. They sayde vnto him: where is he? He sayde: I cannot tell.

Then brought they to y^e pharises / him that [ C] a lytell before was blynde: for it was the Sa∣both daye when Iesus made the claye & ope∣ned his eyes. Then agayne the pharises also ayed him how he had receaved his syght. He sayde vnto thē: He put claye apon myne eyes* 1.74 and I wasshed / & do se. Then sayde some of the pharises: this man is not of God / because he kepeth not the saboth daye. Other sayde: how can a man y^• is a synner / do suche myra∣cles? And ther was stryfe amonge thē. Then spake they vnto the blynde agayne: What sayst thou of him / because he hath openned thyne eyes? And he sayd: He is a Prophet.

But the Iewes dyd not beleve of the felo∣we / how [ D] that he was blynde & receaved his syght / vntyll they had called the father and mother of him that had receaved his syght. And they axed thē saying: Is this youre son∣ne / whome ye saye was borne blynde? How doth he now se then? His father & mother an∣swered

them & sayde: we wote well that this is oure sonne / and that he was borne blynde: but by what meanes he now seith / that can we not tell / or who hath opened his eyes / can we not tell. He is olde ynough / axe him / let him answer for him selfe. Suche wordes spa∣ke his father and mother / because they feared [ E] the Iewes. For the Iewes had conspyred all redy that yf eny man dyd confesse that he was Christ / he shuld be excommunicat out of the synagoge. Therfore sayde his father and mo∣ther: he is olde ynough / axe him.

Then agayne called they the man that was blynde / and sayd vnto him: Geve God the prayse: we knowe that this man is a synner. He answered and sayde: Whyther he be a syn¦ner or noo / I cannot tell: One thinge I am sure of / that I was blynde / & now I se. Then sayde they to him agayne. What dyd he to the? How opened he thyne eyes? He answe∣red them / I tolde you yerwhyle / and ye dyd not heare. Wherfore wolde ye heare it agay∣ne? Will ye also be his disciples? Then ra∣ted they him / and sayde: Thou arte his disci∣ple. We be Moses disciples. We are sure that God spake with Moses. This felowe [ F] we knowe not from whence he is.

The man answered and sayde vnto them: this is a merveleous thinge that ye wote not whence he is / seinge he hath opened myne eyes. For we be sure that God heareth not synners. But yf eny man be a worshipper of God & do his will / him heareth he. Sence y^e

worlde beganne was it not hearde y^t eny man opened the eyes of one that was borne blynd. If this man were not of God / he coulde have done no thinge. They answered and sayd vn∣to him: thou arte altogeder borne in synne: & dost thou teache vs? And they cast him out.

Iesus hearde that they had excommunica∣te him: and assone as he had founde him / he sayd vnto him: doest thou beleve on the sonne of God? He answered and sayde: Who is it Lorde / that I myght beleve on him? And Ie∣sus sayde vnto him: Thou hast sene him / & he it is that talketh with the. And he sayde: Lor∣de I beleve: & worshipped him. ✚ Iesus say∣de: I am come vnto iudgement into this worl¦de: that they which se not / myght se / and they which se / myght be made blynde. And some of the pharises which were with him / hearde these wordes & sayde vnto him: are we then blynde? Iesus sayde vnto them: yf ye were blynde / ye shuld have no synne. But now ye saye / we se / therfore youre synne remayneth.

¶ The .x. Chapter. ✚

UErely verely I saye vnto you: he that* 1.75 entreth not in by y^• dore / into the she∣pefolde / but clymeth vp some other waye: the same is a thefe & a robber. He that [ A] goeth in by y^e dore / is the shepeherde of y^• she∣pe: to him the porter openeth / and the shepe heare his voyce / & he calleth his awne shepe by name / and leadeth them out. And when he hath sent forthe his awne shepe / he goeth be¦fore them / and the shepe folowe him: for they

knowe his voyce. Astraunger they will not fo¦lowe / but will flye from him: for they knowe not the voyce of straungers. This similitude spake Iesus vnto them. But they vndersto∣de not what thinges they were which he spa¦ke vnto them.

Then sayde Iesus vnto them agayne. Ve∣rely [ B] verely I saye vnto you: I am the dore of the shepe. All / even as many as came before me / are theves and robbers: but the shepe dyd* 1.76 not heare them. I am the dore: by me yf eny man enter in / he shalbe safe / and shall goo in and out and fynde pasture. The thefe cometh not but forto steale / kyll and destroye. I am come that they myght have lyfe / and have it more aboundantly. ⊢

✚ I am y^e good shepeheerd. The good she¦peheerd [ C] * 1.77 geveth his lyfe for y^e shepe. An hey∣red servaūt / which is not y^e shepeherd / nether* 1.78 y^e shepe are his awne / seith the wolfe cōmyn∣ge / & leveth the shepe / & flyeth / and the wolfe catcheth them / & scattereth y^e shepe. The hey∣red servaūt flyeth / because he is an heyred ser∣vaunt / and careth not for the shepe. I am that good shepeheerd / & knowe myne / & am knowē of myne. As my father knoweth me: even so knowe I my father. And I geve my lyfe for* 1.79 the shepe: and other shepe I have / which are not of this folde. Them also must I bringe / that they maye heare my voyce / and that ther maye be one flocke and one shepeherde.

Therfore doth my father love me / because [ D] I put my lyfe from me / that I myght take▪it

agayne. No man taketh it from me: but I put it awaye of my selfe. I have power to put it from me / and have power to take it agayne: This cōmaundment have I receaved of my father. And ther was a dissencion agayne amō¦ge the Iewes for these sayinges / and many of them sayd. He hath the devyll / and is mad: why heare ye him? Other sayde / these are not the wordes of him that hath the devyll. Can the devyll open the eyes of the blynde?

✚ And it was at Ierusalem y^e feaste of the dedicacion / & it was wynter: and Iesus wal∣ked [ E] in Salomons porche. Then came the Ie∣wes* 1.80 rounde aboute him / and sayde vnto him: How longe dost thou make vs doute? Yf thou be Christ / tell vs playnly. Iesus answe∣red them: I tolde you and ye beleve not. The workes y^t I do in my fathers name they bea∣re witnes of me. But ye beleve not / because ye are not of my shepe. As I sayde vnto you: my shepe heare my voyce / & I knowe them / & they folowe me / & I geve vnto thē eternall lyfe / & they shall never perisshe / nether shall eny man plucke thē oute of my honde. My fa¦ther which gave thē me / is greatter then all / and no man is able to take them out of my fa¦thers honde. And I and my father are one.

Then the Iewes agayne toke vp stones / to [ F] stone him with all. Iesus answered them: ma¦ny good workes have I shewed you from my father: for which of them will ye stone me? The Iewes answered him sayinge. For thy good workes sake we stone y^e not: but for thy

blasphemy / and because that thou beinge a* 1.81 man / makest thy selfe God. Iesus answered them: Is it not written in youre lawe: I saye / ye are goddes? If he called thē goddes vnto whom the worde of God was spoken (& the* 1.82 scripture can not be broken) saye ye then to him / whom the father hath sainctified / & sent into the worlde / thou blasphemest / because I sayd I am the sonne of God? If I do not the workes of my father / beleve me not. But if I do though ye beleve not me / yet beleve the workes / that ye maye knowe and beleve that the father is in me / and I in him. ⊢

Agayne they went aboute to take him: but he escaped out of their hondes / & went awaye agayne beyonde Iordan / into the place where Iohn before had baptised / and there aboode. And many resorted vnto him / and sayd. Iohn dyd no miracle: but all thinges that Iohn spa¦ke of this man are true. And many beleved on him theare.

¶ The .xi. Chap. ✚

A Certayne man was sicke / named Laza∣rus of Bethania the toune of Mary & her sister Martha. It was that Mary which annoynted Iesus with oyntment / and* 1.83 wyped his fete with her heere / whose brother Lazarus was sicke / and his sisters sent vnto him sayinge. Lorde behold / he whom thou lo∣vest / is sicke. When Iesus hearde y^t / he sayd: this infirmite is not vnto deth / but for y^• lau∣de of God / that the sonne of God myght be praysed by the reason of it. Iesus loved Mar¦tha and her sister and Lazarus. After he hear∣de

/ that he was sicke / then aboode he two dayes still in the same place where he was.

Then after that sayd he to his disciples: let vs goo into Iewry agayne. His disciples [ B] sayde vnto him. Master / the Iewes lately sought meanes to stone the / & wilt thou goo thyther agayne? Iesus answered: are ther not twelve houres in y^e daye? Yf a man walke in y^e daye / he stombleth not / because he seith the lyght of this worlde. But yf a mā walke in y^e nyght / he stombleth / because ther is no lyght in him. This sayde he / & after y^• / he sayde vn∣to thē: oure frende Lazarus slepeth / but I goo to wake him out of slepe. Then sayde his dis∣ciples: Lorde yf he slepe / he shall do well yn∣ough. How be it Iesus spake of his deeth: but they thought y^t he had spokē of y^e naturall sle¦pe. Then sayde Iesus vnto thē playnly / Laza¦rus is deed / & I am glad for youre sakes / y^t I was not there / because ye maye beleve. Never¦thelesse let vs go vnto him. Then sayde Tho¦mas which is called Dydimus / vnto y^e disci∣ples: let vs also goo / that we maye dye w^t him

Then went Iesus / and founde / that he had [ C] lyne in his grave foure dayes already. Betha¦nie was nye vnto Ierusalem / aboute .xv. fur∣longes of / and many of the Iewes were come to Martha and Mary / to comforte them over their brother. Martha assone as she hearde y^t Iesus was comynge / went and met him: but Mary sate still in the housse.

✚ Then sayde Martha vnto Iesus: Lorde yf thou haddest bene here / my brother had not

bene deed: but neverthelesse / I knewe that whatsoever thou axest of God / God will ge∣ve it the. Iesus sayde vnto her: Thy brother shall ryse agayne. Martha sayde vnto him: I knowe that he shall ryse agayne in there∣surreccion at the last daye. Iesus sayde vnto her: I am the resurreccion & the lyfe: He that beleveth on me / ye though he were deed / yet shall he lyve. And whosoever lyveth and be∣leveth on me / shall never dye. Belevest thou this? She sayde vnto him: ye Lorde / I beleve that thou arte Christ the sonne of god which shuld come into the worlde. ⊢

And assone as she had so sayde / she went her waye and called Marie her sister secretly [ D] sayinge: The master is come & calleth for the And she assone as she hearde that / arose quick¦ly / and came vnto him. Iesus was not yet co∣me into the toune: but was in the place whe∣re Martha met him. The Iewes then which were with her in the housse and comforted her / when they sawe Mary that she rose vp hastely / and went out / folowed her / saying: She goeth vnto the grave / to wepe there.

Then when Mary was come where Ie∣sus was / & sawe him / she fell donne at his fe∣te / sayinge vnto him: Lorde yf thou haddest bene here / my brother had not bene deed. When Iesus sawe her wepe / & y^• Iewes also wepe / which came w^t her / he groned in y^• spre∣te / & was troubled in him selfe & sayde: Whe∣re have ye layed him? They sayde vnto him: Lorde come & se. And Iesus wept. Then say∣de

the Iewes: Beholde howe he loved him. And some of thē sayde: coulde not he which openned the eyes of the blynde / have made al¦so / that this man shuld not have dyed? Iesus agayne groned in him selfe / & came to the gra¦ve. It was a caue / & a stone layde on it.

And Iesus sayd: take ye awaye the stone. Martha the sister of him that was deed / sayd vnto him: Lorde by this tyme he stinketh. For he hath bene deed foure dayes: Iesus sayde vnto her: Sayde I not vnto the / y^e if thou di¦dest beleve / thou shuldest se y^e glory of God. Then they take awaye y^• stone from y^e place where the deed was layde. And Iesus lyfte vp his eyes & sayde: Father I thanke the be¦cause that thou hast hearde me. I wot that thou hearest me all wayes: but because of the people that stonde by I sayde it / y^t they maye beleve / that thou hast sent me.

And when he thus had spoken / he cryed w^t [ F] a loud voyce. Lazarus come forthe. And he that was deed / came forth / bounde hand & fo∣te with grave bondes / & his face was bounde with a napkin. Iesus sayde vnto thē: loowse him / and let him goo. Then many of the Ie∣wes which came to Mary / & had sene the thin¦ges which Iesus dyd / beleved on him. But some of them went their wayes to the Phari¦ses / & tolde them what Iesus had done.

Then gadered the hye prestes & the Phari¦ses a counsell & sayde: what do we? This mā doeth many miracles Yf we let him scape thus / all men will beleve on him / & y^e Romay∣nes

shall come & take awaye oure countre & the people. And one of them named Cayphas which was the hieprest y^• same yeare / sayde vnto them: Ye perceave nothinge at all nor yet consider that it is expedient for vs / that one man dye for the people / & not that all the people perisshe. This spake he not of him sel∣fe / but beinge hye preste that same yeare / he prophesied that Iesus shulde dye for the peo¦ple / and not for the people only / but that he shuld gader to geder in one the chyldren of God which were scattered abroode. From that daye forth they held a counsell to geder / for to put him to deeth.

Iesus therfore walked no more opēly amō¦ge the Iewes: but wēt his waye thence vnto a coūtre nye to a wildernes / into a cite called Ephraim / & there haūted with his disciples. And the Iewes ester was nye at hand / & ma∣ny went out of the countre vp to Ierusalem before the ester / to purify them selves. Then sought they for Iesus / and spake bitwene thē¦selves as they stode in the tēple: What thin∣ke ye / seynge he cōmeth not to the feast. The hye prestes & Pharises had geven a cōmaun∣demēt / that yf eny man knew where he were / he shuld shewe it / that they myght take him.

¶ The .xii. Chapter. ✚

THen Iesus sixe dayes before ester / ca∣me [ A] to Bethany where Lazarus was / * 1.84 which was deed & whō Iesus raysed from deeth. There they made him a supper / and Martha served: but Lazarus was one of

them that sate at the table with him. Then toke Mary a pounde of oyntmēt called Nar∣dus / perfecte and precious / & anoynted Iesus fete / and wipt his fete with her heer / and the* 1.85 housse was filled of the savre of the oyntmēt. Then sayde one of his disciples named Iu∣das Iscariot Simōs sonne / which afterwar¦de betrayed him: why was not this oyntmēt solde for thre hondred pence / and gevē to the poore? This sayde he / not that he cared for the pooer: but because he was a thefe / & kept the bagge / and bare that which was geven. Then sayde Iesus: Let her alone / agaynst the daye of my buryinge she kept it. The poore all wayes shall ye have with you / but me shall ye not all wayes have.

Moche people of the Iewes had knowled¦ge that he was there. And they came not for [ B] Iesus sake only / but y^t they myght se Laza∣rus also whom he raysed from deeth. The hye prestes therfore held a counsell that they myght put Lazarus to deeth also / because that for his sake many of the Iewes went awaye / and beleved on Iesus.

On the morowe / moche people that were come to the feast / when they hearde y^t Iesus shuld come to Ierusalem / toke braunches of palme trees and went and met him / & cryed:* 1.86 Hosanna / blessed is he that in the name of the Lorde / commeth kynge of Israel. And Iesus got a yonge asse and sate therō / accordinge to* 1.87 that which was writtē: feare not doughter of Siō / beholde thy kynge cōmeth sittinge on an

asses coolte. These thinges vnderstode not his disciples at y^e fyrst: but when Iesus was gloryfied / then remembryd they that soche thinges were written of him / and that soche thinges they had done vnto him.

The people that was with him / when he called Lazarus out of his grave / & raysed him from deeth / bare recorde. Therfore met him the people / because they hearde y^t he had do∣ne soche a myracle. The Pharises therfore sayde amonge them selves: perceave ye how we prevayle no thinge? beholde the worlde goth awaye after him.

Ther were certayne Grekes amōge them / that came to praye at the feast: the same cam to Philip which was of Bethsayda a cyte in Galile / & desired him sayinge: Syr we wolde fayne se Iesus. Philip came & tolde Andrew. And agayne Andrew & Philip tolde Iesus. And Iesus answered them sayinge: the houre is come y^• the sonne of mā must be glorified.

✚ Derely verely▪ I saye vnto you / except y^e [ D] wheate corne fall into the grounde and dye / it bydeth alone. Yf it dye / it brengeth forth mo¦che* 1.88 frute. He that loveth his lyfe shall de∣stroye it: & he y^• hateth his lyfe in this worlde shall kepe it vnto lyfe eternall. If eny man mynister vnto me / let him folowe me / & whe∣re I am there shall also my minister be. And* 1.89 yf eny man minister vnto me / him will my fa¦ther honoure. ⊢

Now is my soule troubled / & what shall I saye? Father delyver me from this houre: but

therfore came I vnto this houre. Father glori¦fy thy name. Then came ther a voyce frō hea¦ven: I have glorified it / & will glorify it agay¦ne. Then sayd the people y^• stode by & hearde: it thoundreth. Other sayde an angell spake to him. Iesus answered and sayde: this voyce cam not because of me / but for youre sakes.

✚ Now is the iudgement of this worlde: [ E] now shall y^• prince of this worlde be cast out. And I / yf I were lifte vp from the erthe / will drawe all men vnto me. This sayde Iesus / * 1.90 signifyinge what deeth he shuld dye. The people answered him: We have hearde of y^• lawe y^• Christ bydeth ever: & how sayest thou then that the sonne of man must be lefte vp? who is y^t sonne of mā? Then Iesus sayde vn to them: yet a lytell whyle is the light w^t you.* 1.91 Walke whill ye have light / lest the darcknes come on you. He that walketh in the darke / wotteth not whither he goeth. Whyll ye ha∣ve light / beleve on the light / that ye maye be the chyldren of light. ✚ [ F]

These thinges spake Iesus and departed / * 1.92 & hyd him silfe frō them. And though he had done so many myracles before them / yet bele∣ved not they on him / y^t the sayinge of Esayas the Prophet myght be fulfilled / y^t he spake. Lorde who shall beleve oure sayinge? And to whom ys the arme of y^e Lorde opened? Ther∣fore coulde they not beleve / because y^• Esaias sayth agayne: he hath blinded their eyes and hardened their hertes / that they shuld not se with their eyes & vnderstonde with their her¦tes

/ & shuld be converted / & I shuld heale thē. Soche thinges sayde Esaias when he sawe his glory & spake of him. Neverthelesse amō∣ge y^e chefe rulers many beleved on him. But be¦cause of the pharises they wolde not be a kno¦wen of it / lest they shuld be excommunicate. For they loved the prayse y^t is geven of men / [ G] more then the prayse that cōmeth of God.

And Iesus cryed & sayde: he that beleveth on me / beleveth not on me / but on him y^t sent me. And he that seeth me / seeth him that sent me. ✚ I am come a light into the worlde / that* 1.93 whosoever beleveth on me / shuld not byde in darcknes. And yf eny man heare my wordes & beleve not / I iudge him not. For I came not to iudge the worlde: but to save y^e worlde. He that refuseth me & receaveth not my wordes / hath one that iudgeth him. The wordes that I have spoken / they shall iudge him in y^e last daye. For I have not spoken of my selfe: but the father which sent me / he gave me a com∣maundemēt what I shuld saye / and what I shuld speake. And I knowe that this cōmaun¦dement is lyfe everlastinge. Whatsoever I speake therfore / evē as the father bade me / so I speake. ⊢

¶ The .xiii. Chapter. ✚

BEfore the feast of ester whē Iesus kne¦we that his houre was come / that he [ A] shuld departe out of this worlde vnto* 1.94 the father. When he loved his which were in the worlde / vnto the ende he loved thē. And when supper was ended / after that the devyll had put in the hert of Iudas Iscariot Simōs

sonne / to betraye him: Iesus knowinge that the father had gevē all thinges into his hon¦des. And that he was come from God and went to God / he rose from supper / and layde* 1.95 a syde his vpper garmentes / & toke a towell / and gyrd him selfe. After that poured he wa∣ter into a basyn / and beganne to wash his di∣sciples fete / & to wype them with the towell / wherwith he was gyrde.

Then came he to Simon Peter. And Peter sayde to him: Lorde shalt thou wesshe my fe∣te? Iesus answered & sayde vnto him: what I do / thou wotest not now / but thou shalt kno¦we herafter. Peter sayd vnto him: thou shalt not wesshe my fete whill y^• worlde stondeth. [ B] Iesus answered him: yf I wasshe y^• not / thou shalt have no part with me. Simon Peter say¦de vnto him: Lorde / not my fete only: but also my handes & my heed. Iesus sayde to him: he that is wesshed / nedeth not save to wesshe his fete / & is clene every whit. And ye are clene: but not all. For he knewe his betrayer. Ther¦fore sayde he: ye are not all clene.

After he had wesshed their fete / & receaved his clothes / & was set doune agayne / he sayde vnto them? wot ye what I have done to you? Ye call me master & Lorde / & ye saye well / for* 1.96 so am I. If I then youre Lorde and master have wesshed youre fete / ye also ought to wes¦she one anothers fete. For I have geven you an ensample / that ye shuld do as I have done to you. Derely verely I saye vnto you / the ser∣vaunt is not greater then his master / nether

the messenger greater then he that sent him.

If ye vnderstonde these thing{is} / happy are [ D] ye yf ye do them. I speake not of you all / I knowe whom I have chosen. But that y^• scri¦pture be fulfilled: he that eateth breed w^t me / * 1.97 hath lyfte vp his hele agaynste me. Now tell I you before it come: that when it is come to passe / ye might beleve that I am he. Verely ve¦rely* 1.98 I saye vnto you. He that receaveth whō¦soever I sende / receaveth me. And he that re∣ceaveth me / receaveth him that sent me.

When Iesus had thus sayd / he was trou¦bled in the sprete / & testified sayinge: verely verely I saye vnto you / that one of you shall betraye me. And then the disciples loked one* 1.99 on another doutinge of whō he spake. Ther was one of his disciples / which leaned on Ie¦sus bosome / whom Iesus loved. To him bec¦kened Simō Peter that he shuld axe who it was of whom he spake. He then as he leaned on Iesus brest / sayde vnto him: Lorde who ys it? Iesus answered / he yt ys to whom I ge∣ve a soppe / when I have dept it. And he wet a soppe / and gave it to Iudas Iscarioth Simons sonne. And after the soppe / Satan entred into him.

Then sayd Iesus vnto him: that thou dost / [ D] do quickly. That wist no mā at the table / for what intent he spake vnto him. Some of thē thought / because Iudas had the bagge / that Iesus had sayd vnto him / bye those thinges that we have nede af agaynst y^e feast: or that he shulde geve some thinge to the poore. As∣sone

then as he had receaved the soppe / he wēt immediatly out. And it was night. Whē he was gone out / Iesus sayde: now is the son¦ne of man glorified. And God is glorified by him. Yf God be glorified by him / God shall also glorify him / in him selfe: & shall strayght waye glorify him.

✚ Deare chyldren / yet a lytell whyle am I with you. Ye shall seke me / & as I sayde vnto the Iewes / whither I goo / thither can ye not [ D] come. Also to you saye I nowe. A newe com∣maundment* 1.100 geve I vnto you / that ye love to gedder / as I have loved you / that even so ye love one another. By this * 1.101 shall all mē kno∣we y^t ye are my disciples / yf ye shall have love one to another. Simon Peter sayd vnto him: Lorde whither goest thou? Iesus answered him: whither I goo thou canst not folowe me now / but thou shalt folowe me afterwardes. Peter sayd vnto him: Lorde / why cānot I folo¦we the now? I will geve my lyfe for thy sa∣ke? Iesus answered him: wilt thou geve thy lyfe for my sake? Verely verely I saye vnto the / the cocke shall not crowe / tyll thou have denyed me thryse.

¶ The .xiiii. Chapter. ✚

ANd he sayd vnto his disciples: Let not youre herte be troubled. Beleve in god & beleve in me. In my fathers housse are many mansions. If it were not so / I wol∣de have tolde you. I go to prepare a place for you. And yf I go to prepare a place for you / I will come agayne / & receave you evē vnto my

selfe / y^t where I am / there maye ye be also. And whither I go ye knowe / & y^e waye ye knowe.

Thomas sayde vnto him: Lorde we knowe not whyther thou goest. Also how is it possi∣ble for vs to knowe the waye? Iesus sayd vn¦to him: I am y^e waye / y^e truthe & y^e life. And no man cōmeth vnto the father / but by me. Yf ye had knowē me / ye had knowē my father also. And now ye knowe him / & have sene him.

Philip sayd vnto him: Lorde shew vs the father / and it suffiseth vs. Iesus sayde vnto him: have I bene so longe tyme w^e you: & yet hast thou not knowen me? Philip / he y^t hath [ B] sene me / hath sene y^e father. And how sayest thou then: shew vs the father? Belevest thou not that I am in y^e father / & the father in me? The wordes that I speake vnto you / I spea∣kee not of my selfe: but y^e father that dwelleth in me / is he that doeth y^e workes. Beleve me / that I am the father & y^e father in me. At the leest beleve me for the very workes sake.

Verely verely I saye vnto you: he that bele¦veth on me / the workes that I doo / the same shall he do / & greater workes then these shall he do / because I go vnto my father. And what* 1.102 soever ye axe in my name / y^t will I do / y^• the father might be glorified by the sonne. Yf ye shall axe eny thīge in my name / I will do it ⊢

✚ If ye love me kepe my * cōmaundemen∣tes / & I will praye the father / & he shall geve you another comforter / y^• he maye byde with you ever / which is the sprete of truthe who∣me the worlde cānot receave / because the worl¦de

seyth him not / nether knoweth h••m. But ye knowe him. For he dwelleth with you / and shalbe in you. I will not leave you comfort. lesse: but will come vnto you.

Yet a litell whyle and the worlde seith me [ C] no moare▪ but ye shall se me. For I live / & ye shall live. That daye shall ye knowe that I am in my father / & you in me / & I in you.

He that hath my cōmaundemētes & kepeth* 1.103 them / the same is he that lov••th me. And he y^t loveth me / shalbe loved of my father: & I will love him / and will shewe myne awne selfe vn¦to him. Iudas sayde vnto him (not Iudas I scarioth) Lorde what is the cause▪ that thou wilt shewe thy selfe vnto vs / & not vnto the worlde? Iesus answered and sayde vnto him: yf a man love me and wyll kepe my sayinges / my father also will love him▪ & w•• will come vnto him / and will dwelle with him. He that* 1.104 loveth me not / kepeth not my sayinges. And the wordes which ye heare / are not myne / but the fathers which sent me.

This have I spoken vnto you beynge yet [ D] present with you. But that cōforter which is the holy gost (whom my father will sende in my name) he shall teache you all thing•• / and bringe all thinges to youre remembraunce whatsoever I have tolde you.

Peace I leve with you / my peace I geve vn¦to* 1.105 you. Not as the worlde geveth / geve I vn¦to you. Let not youre hertes be greved / nether feare ye. Ye have hearde how I sayde vnto you: I go & come agayne vnto you. If ye loved

me / ye wolde verely reioyce / because I sayde / I go vnto y^e father. For y^e father is greater then I. And now have I shewed you / before it co∣me / y^t whē it is come to passe / ye might beleve.

Here after will I not talke many mordes vnto you. For the rular of this worlde com∣meth / & hath nought in me. But that the worl¦de maye knowe that I love the father: therfo¦re as the father gave me cōmaundment / even so do I. ✚ Ryse let vs go hence.

¶ The .xv. Chapter. ✚

I Am the true vyne / and my father ys an husbande man. Every braunche that [ A] beareth not frute in me / he will take* 1.106 awaye. And every braunche that beareth fru∣te / will he pourge / y^t it maye bringe moare fru¦te. Now are ye cleane thorow y^• wordes which I have spokē vnto you. Byde in me / & let me byde in you. As y^• braunche cānot beare frute of it sylfe / excepte it byde in the vyne: no mo¦re can ye / excepte ye abyde in me.

I am the vyne / & ye are the braunches. He that abydeth in me / & I in him / the same brin¦geth forth moche frute. For with out me can ye do nothinge. Yf a man byde not in me / he* 1.107 ys cast forthe as a braunche / & is wyddered: & men gadder it / and cast it into the fyre / and it burneth. Yf ye byde in me / and my wordes al¦so byde in you: axe what ye will / & it shalbe* 1.108 done to you ✚. Heare in is my father glorifi∣ed / that ye beare moche frute / and be made my disciples.

As the father hath loved me / evē so have I

leved you. Continue in my love. Yf ye shall [ B] kepe * 1.109 my cōmaūdemētes / ye shall byde in my love / evē as I have kept my fathers cōmaun∣dementes / & byde in his love. These thinges have I spoken vnto you / y^t my ioye myght re∣mayne in you / & that youre ioye might be full. ✚ This is my commaundement / that ye lo∣ve togedder as I have loved you. Gretter lo∣ve then this hath no man / then that a man be¦stowe his lyfe for his frendes. Ye are my frē∣des / yf ye do whatsoever I commaunde you. Hence forth call I you not servauntes: for the servaunt knoweth not what his Lorde doeth. But you have I called frendes: for all thinges that I have hearde of my father / I have opened to you.

Ye have not chosen me / but I have chosen you & ordeyned you / that ye go & bringe forthe frute / & that youre frute remayne / that what∣soever ye shall axe of the father in my name / he shulde geve it you. ⊢

✚ This cōmaunde I you / that ye love to¦gedder. [ C] Yf y^• worlde hate you / ye knowe that* 1.110 he hated me before he hated you. Yf ye were of the worlde / y^• worlde wolde love his awne. How be it because ye are not of y^e worlde / but I have chosen you out of the worlde / therfore hateth you the worlde. Remember the sayin∣ge that I sayde vnto you: the servaūte is not greater then his lorde. Yf they have persecu∣ted me / so will they persecute you Yf they ha¦ve* 1.111 kept my sayinge / so will they kepe youres.

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for my names sake / because they have not knowen him that sent me. If I had not come and spoken vnto them / they shulde not have had synne: but now have they nothinge to clo¦ke their synne with all. He that hateth me / ha¦teth my father. If I had not done workes a∣mōge thē which none other mā dyd they had not had synne. But now have they sene / & yet have hated bothe me ▪ my father: evē that the savinge myght be fulfilled that is written in* 1.112 theyr lawe: they hated me w^tout a cause. ⊢

✚ But when the comforter is come / whom [ D] I will sende vnto you frō the father / which is the sprete of truthe / which proceadeth of the father / he shall testifie of me. And ye* 1.113 shall beare witnes also / because ye have bene with me from the begynninge.

¶ The. ••vi. Chapter.

THese thinges have I sayde vnto you / [ A] * 1.114 because ye shuld not be offended. They shall excōmunicat you: ye y^e ty∣me shall come / that whosoever killeth you / will thinke that he doth God service. And suche thinges will they do vnto you / because they have not knowen the father nether yet me. But these thinges have I tolde you / that when that houre is come / ye myght remember them / that I tolde you so. ✚ These thinges sayde I not vnto you at the begynninge / be¦cause I was present with you.

✚ But now I goo my waye to him that [ B] sent me / and none of you axeth me: whither goest thou? But because I have sayde suche

thinges vnto you / youre hertes are full of so∣rowe. Neverthelesse I tell you the trueth / it is expedient for you that I goo awaye. For yf I goo not awaye / that comforter will not co¦me vnto you. But yf I departe / I will sende him vnto you. And when he is come / he will rebuke y^e worlde of synne / and of rightwes∣nes / and of iudgement. Of synne / because* 1.115 they beleve not on me: Of rightwesnes be∣cause* 1.116 I go to my father / and ye shall se me no moare: and of iudgement / because the chefe ru¦ler of this worlde / is iudged all ready.

I have yet many thing{is} to saye vnto you: [ C] but ye cānot beare them awaye now. How be it when he is come (I meane the sprete of tru¦the) he will leade you into all trueth. He shall not speake of him selfe: but whatsoever he shall heare / that shall he speake / and he will shewe you thinges to come. He shall glorify me / for he shall receave of myne & shall shewe vnto you. All thinges that y^e father hath are∣myne. Therfore sayd I vnto you / that he shall take of myne and shewe vnto you. ⊢

✚ After a whyle ye shall not se me / & agay∣ne after a whyle ye shall se me: For I goo to the father. Then sayd some of his disciples [ D] bitwene them selves: what is this y^t he sayth vnto vs / after a whyle ye shall not se me / and agayne after a whyle ye shall se me: and that I go to the father. They sayd therfore: what is this that he sayth after a whyle? we cānot tell what he sayth. Iesus perceaved / y^t they wolde axe him / and sayd vnto them: This is

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it that ye enquyre of bitwene youre selves / that I sayd / after a whyle ye shall not se me / & agayne after a whyle ye shall se me. Verely verely I saye vnto you: ye shall wepe & lamēt & the worlde shall reioyce. Ye shall sorowe: [ E] but youre sorowe shalbe tourned to ioye.

A woman when she traveyleth hath soro∣we / because her houre is come: but assone as she is delivered of the chylde / she remembreth no moare the anguysshe / for ioye that a man is borne in to the worlde. And ye now are in sorowe: but I will se you agayne / and youre hertes shall reioyce / & youre ioye shall no mā take frō you. ✚ And in that daye shall ye axe me no question. ✚ Verely verely I saye vnto you / whatsoever ye shall axe the father in my* 1.117 name / he will geve it you. Hitherto have ye axed nothinge in my name. Axe and ye shall receave it: that youre ioye maye be full.

These thinges have I spoken vnto you in [ F] * 1.118 proverbes. The tyme will come when I shall no moare speake to you in proverbes: but I shall shewe you playnly from my father. At that daye shall ye axe in myne name. And I saye not vnto you that I will speake vnto my father for you. For y^e father him selfe loveth you / because ye have loved me / and have bele∣ved that I came out from God. I went out from the father / and came into the worlde: & I leve the worlde agayne / and go to y^e father.

His disciples sayd vnto him: loo now spea¦kest thou playnly / & thou vsest no proverbe. Nowe knowe we that thou vnderstondest all

thinges / & nedest not y^t eny man shuld axe the eny question. Therfore beleve we that thou camst frō god. ✚ Iesus answered them: Now ye do beleve. Beholde y^e houre draweth nye / * 1.119 & is already come / y^t ye shalbe scatered every man his wayes / & shall leave me alone. And yet am I not alone. For y^e father is with me.

These wordes have I spokē vnto you / y^• in me ye might have peace. For in y^e worlde shall ye have tribulaciō: but be of good cheare / I ha¦ve over come the worlde.

¶ The .xvii. Chapter. ✚ [ A]

THese wordes spake Iesus and lyfte vp his eyes to heven / and sayde: father the houre is come: glorify thy sonne / that thy sonne maye glorify the: as thou hast gevē him power over all fleshe / that he shuld geve eternall lyfe to as many as thou hast* 1.120 geven him. This is lyfe eternall / that they myght knowe the that only very God / and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ.

I have glorified y^e on the erth. I have fy∣nysshed y^e worke which thou gavest me to do. And now glorify me thou father w^t thyn aw∣ne [ B] selfe / with the glory which I had with y^e yerre y^e worlde was. I have declared thy na∣me vnto y^e men which thou gavest me out of the worlde. Thyne they were / & thou gavest them me / and they have kept thy sayinges. Now they knowe that all thinges whatsoe∣ver thou hast geven me / are of the. For I ha∣ve geven vnto them the wordes which thou gavest me / & they have receaved them / & kno∣we

surely that I came out from the: and doo beleve that thou dyddest send me.

I praye for them / & praye not for the worlde: but for thē which thou hast gevē me / for they are thyne. And all myne are thyne / & thyne are myne / & I am glorified in thē. And now am▪ [ C] I no moare in the worlde / but they are in the worlde / & I come to y^e. ✚ ✚ Wholy father ke¦pe in thyne awne name / thē which thou hast geven me / that they maye be one / a•• we are. Whyll I was with thē in y^e worlde / I kepte thē in thy name. Those y^• thou gavest me / ha∣ve I kepte / & none of thē is lost / but that lost* 1.121 chylde / that the scripture myght be fulfilled.

Now come I to the / and these wordes spea¦ke I in the worlde / that they myght have my ioye full in thē. I have geven them thy wor∣des / and the worlde hath hated them / because they are not of the worlde / even as I am not of the worlde. I desyre not that thou shuldest take thē out of the worlde: but that thou kepe them from evyll. ✚ They are not of the worl∣de / as I am not of the worlde. Sanctify thē w^t thy truth. Thy sayinge is truth. As thou dyddest send me into the worlde / even so ha∣ve I sent them into the worlde / and for their sakes sanctify I my selfe / that they also myght be sanctified thorowe the trueth. [ D]

I praye not for them alone: but for them al∣so which shall beleve on me thorowe their preachynge / that they all maye be one / as thou father arte in me / & I in the / that they maye be also one in vs / that the worlde maye beleve

that thou hast sent me. And that glory that thou gavest me / I have geven them / that they maye be one / as we are wone. I in them and thou in me / that they maye be made perfecte in one / and that the worlde maye knowe that thou hast sent me / & hast loved them / as thou hast loved me.

Father / I will that they which thou hast geven me / be with me where I am that they maye se my glory which thou hast geven me. For thou lovedest me before the makynge of the worlde. O ryghteous father / y^e very worl∣de hath not knowen the: but I have knowen the / & these have knowen that thou hast sent me. And I have declared vnto them thy na∣me / and will declare it / that the love wher w^t thou hast loved me / be in them / and that I be in them.

¶ The .xviii. Chapter. ✚

VVhen Iesus had spoken these wor∣des / he [ A] * 1.122 wēt forth with his disciples over the broke Cedron / where was a garden / into the which he entred with his di∣sciples. Iudas also which betr••yed him / kne∣we the place: for Iesus ofte tymes resorted thyther with his disciples. Iudas then after* 1.123 he had receaved abonde of men / and ministres [ B] of the hye Prestes and Pharises / came thy∣ther with lanterns and fy••rbrondes and we∣pens. Then Iesus knowynge all thinges that shuld come on him / went forth and say∣de vnto them: whom seke ye? They answe∣red him: Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus sayde vn∣to them: I am he.

Iudas also which betrayed him / stode with them. But assone as he had sayd vnto them / [ B] I am he they went backe wardes & fell to the grounde. And he axed thē agayne: whome se∣ke ye? They sayde: Iesus of Nazareth. Iesus answered / I sayde vnto you / I am he. If ••e seke me / let these goo their waye. That y^e say∣inge might be fulfilled which he spake: of thē which thou gavest me / have I not lost one.

Simon Peter had a swearde / & drue it / & smo¦te the hye prestes servaunt / & cut of his ryght* 1.124 care. The servauntes name was Malchas. Then sayde Iesus vnto Peter: put vp thy swearde into y^e sheath: shall I not drinke of y^e cup which my father hath geven me? Then the cōpany & the capta▪ ne / & the ministres of [ C] of the Iewes / toke Iesus & bounde him / & led him awaye to Anna fyrst: For he was fathe∣relawe vnto Cayphas / which was y^e hye pre∣ste that same yeare. Cayphas was he that ga∣ve counsell to y^• Iewes / that it was expediēt that one man shuld dye for the people.

And Simon Peter folowed Iesus & another disciple: that disciple was knowen of y^e hye preste / & went in with Iesus into the pallys of the hye preste. But Peter stode at the dore with out. Then went out that other disciple which was knowen vnto the hye preste / & spa¦ke* 1.125 to the damsell that kept the dore / & brought in Peter. Then sayde y^e damsell that kept the dore / vnto Peter: Arte not thou one of this mannes disciples? He sayde: I am not. The servauntes & the ministres stode there / & had

made a fyre of coles: for it was colde: & they warmed them selves. Peter also stode amon∣ge them and warmed him selfe.

The hye preste axed Iesus of his disciples [ D] & of his doctrine. Iesus answered him: I spa¦ke openly in y^e worlde. I ever taught in y^• sy∣nagoge & in the temple whyther all y^• Iewes resorted / & in secrete have I sayde nothynge: Why axest thou me? Axe them whiche hear¦de me / what I sayde vnto thē. Beholde they can tell what I sayde. Whē he had thus spo¦ken / one of y^e ministres which stode by / smote* 1.126 Iesus on the face saying: answerest thou the hye preste so? Iesus answered him. If I have evyll spokē / beare witnes of y^e evyll: yf I have well spokē / why smytest thou me? And Annas sent him bounde vnto Caiphas y^• hye preste.

Simon Peter stode and warmed him selfe. [ E] And they sayde vnto him: arte not thou also one of his disciples? He denyed it / and sayde: I am not. One of the servauntes of the hye preste (his cosyn whose eare Peter smote of) sayde vnto him: dyd not I se the in the gar∣den* 1.127 with him? Peter denyed it agayne: & im∣mediatly the cocke crewe.

Then led they Iesus frō Cayphas into the [ F] hall of iudgement. It was in the mornynge / & they them selves went not into the iudge∣ment hall lest they shuld be defyled / but that they myght eate the paschall lambe. Pylate then went out vnto thē & sayde: what accusa∣cion bringe ye agaynste this man? They ans∣wered and sayd vnto him. If he were not an

evyll doar / we wolde not have delyvered him vnto the. Then sayd Pylate vnto thē: take ye him / and iudge him after youre awne lawe. Then the Iewes sayde vnto him. It is not lawfull for vs to put eny mā to deeth. That y^e* 1.128 wordes of Iesus myght be fulfilled which he spake / signifyinge what deeth he shuld dye.

Then Pylate entred into the iudgemē▪ hall* 1.129 agayne / & called Iesus / & sayd vnto him: arte thou the kynge of ▪ Iewes? Iesus answered: sayst thou that of thy selfe / or dyd other tell it the of me? Pylate answered: Am Ia Iewe? Thyne awne nacion & hye prestes have de∣lyvered y^• vnto me. What hast thou done? Ie¦sus answered: my kyngdome is not of this worlde. Yf my kyngdome were of this worl∣de / then wolde my ministres surely fight / y^t I shuld not be delyvered to y^e Iewes / but now is my kyngdome not frō hence. Pylate sayde [ G] vnto him: Arte thou a kynge then? Iesus an∣swered: Thou sayst y^e I am a kynge. For this cause was I borne / & for this cause came I in∣to y^e worlde y^t I shuld beare witnes vnto the trueth. And all that are of y^e trueth heare my voyce. Pilate sayde vnto him: what thinge is trueth? And when he had sayd y^t / he went out agayne vnto the Iewes / & sayde vnto them: I fynde in him no cause at all. Ye have a cu∣stome / that I shuld delyver you one lowsse* 1.130 at ester. Will ye that I lowse vnto you the kynge of y^e Iewes. Then cryed they all agay∣ne sayinge: Not him / but Barrabas / that Bar¦rabas was a robber.

¶ The .xix. Chap.

THen Pylate toke Iesus and scourged [ A] * 1.131 him. And y^e soudiers wounde a croune of thornes and put it on his heed. And they dyd on him a purple garment / and sayd: hayll kynge of the Iewes: & they smote him on the face. Pylate went forthe agayne / & say∣de vnto them: beholde I bringe him forth to you / that ye maye knowe / that I fynde no fau¦te in him. Then came Iesus forthe wearyn∣ge a croune of thorne and a robe of purple. And Pylate sayd vnto them: beholde y^e man. When the hye Prestes and ministres sawe him / they cryed sayinge: crucify him / crucify him. Pylate sayde vnto them. Take ye him and crucify him: for I fynde no cause in him. The Iewes answered him. We have a lawe / and by oure lawe he ought to dye: because he made him selfe the sonne of God.

When Pylate hearde that sayinge / he was [ B] the moare afrayde / & went agayne into y^e iudg¦ment hall / and sayde vnto Iesus: whence arte thou? But Iesus gave him none answere. Then sayde Pylate vnto him. Speakest thou not vnto me? knowest thou not that I have power to crucify the / & have power to lowse the? Iesus answered: Thou couldest have no power at all agaynst me / except it were geven the from above. Therfore he y^t delyvered me vnto the / is moare in synne. And from thence forthe sought Pylate meanes to lowse him: but the Iewes cryed sayinge: yf thou let him goo / thou arte not Cesars frende. For whosoe¦ver maketh h•• selfe a kynge / is agaynst Cesar

When Pylate hearde y^t sayinge / he brought Iesus forthe / and sate doune to geve sentēce / in a place called the pavement: but in the He∣brue tonge / Gabbatha. It was the Saboth even which falleth in the ester fest / and abou∣te the sixte houre. And he sayde vnto the Ie∣wes: beholde youre kynge. They cryed / awaye with him / awaye with him / crucify him. Pylate sayde vnto them. Shall I cruci∣fy youre kynge? The hye Prestes answered: we have no kynge but Cesar. Then delyve∣red he him vnto them / to be crucified. [ B] * 1.132

And they toke Iesus and led him awaye. And he bare his crosse / and went forthe into a place called the place of deed mens sculles / which is named in Hebrue / Golgatha. Whe∣re they crucified him and two other with him on ether syde one / and Iesus in the myddes. And Pylate wrote his tytle / and put it on the crosse. The writynge was / Iesus of Naza∣reth / kynge of the Iewes. This tytle reed ma¦ny of the Iewes. For the place where Iesus was crucified / was nye to the cite. And it was written in Hebrue / Greke & Latyn. Then say¦de the hye prestes of y^e Iewes to Pylate: wry∣te not / kynge of the Iewes: but that he sayde / I am kynge of the Iewes. Pylate answered:* 1.133 what I have written / that have I written.

Then the soudiers / when they had crucified [ E] Iesus / toke his garmentes & made foure par∣tes / to every soudier a parte / & also his coote. The coote was with out seme / wrought vpon thorowe out. And they sayde one to another.

Let vs not devyde it: but cast loost•• who shall have it That the scripture myght be fulfilled which sayth. They parted my rayment amon¦ge* 1.134 them / and on my coote dyd cast lottes. And the sou••iers dyd soche thinges in dede.

Ther stode by the crosse of Iesus his mo¦ther / & his mothers sister / Mary the wyfe of Cleophas / and Mary Magdalene. When Ie¦sus sawe his mother / and the disciple stondyn¦ge whom he loved / he sayde vnto his mother: woman beholde thy sonne. Then sayde he to y^• disciple: beholde thy mother. And frō that houre the disciple toke her for his awne.

After that when Iesus perceaved that all [ F] thinges were performed: that the scripture* 1.135 myght be fulfilled / he sayde: I thyrst. Ther stode a vessell full of veneger by. And they fil¦led a sponge with veneger / & wounde it about with ysope / and put it to his mouth. Assone as Iesus had receaved of the veneger / he sayd: It is fynesshed / and bowed his heed / and ga¦ue vp the goost.

The Iewes then because it was the saboth evē / that y^e bodyes shuld not remayne apon y^• crosse on y^• saboth daye (for that saboth daye was an hye daye) besought Pylate that their legges myght be broken & that they myght be taken doune. Then came the soudiers and br••¦ke the legges of the fyrst / & of the other which was crucified with Iesus. But when they ca¦me to Iesus / & sawe that he was deed already they brake not his legges: but one of the sou¦diers with a speare / thrust him into the syde /

& forthwith came ther out bloud and water.

And he that sawe it / bare recorde / & his re∣corde is true. And he knoweth that he sayth true / that ye myght beleve also. These thin¦ges* 1.136 were done that the scripture shuld be ful¦filled: Ye shall not breake a boone of him. And agayne another scripture sayth: They [ G] shall looke on him / whom they pearsed.

After that / Ioseph of Aramathia (which* 1.137 was a disciple of Iesus: but secretly for feare of y^e Iewes) besought Pylate that he myght take doune the body of Iesus. And Pylate ga¦ve him licence. And ther cam also Nicodemuo which at the beginnynge came to Iesus by nyght / & brought of myrre and aloes mingled to gether aboute an hundred pounde wayght Then toke they the body of Iesu & wounde it in lynnen clothes with the odoures as y^e ma¦ner of the Iewes is to bury. And in the place where Iesus was crucified / was a garden / & in y^e garden a newe sepulchre / wherin was ne¦ver man layd••. There layd•• they Iesus becau¦se of the Iewes saboth even / for the sepulcre was nye at honde. ⊢

¶ The .xx. Chap. ✚

THe morow after the saboth daye / came [ A] * 1.138 Mary Magdalene erly / when it was yet darcke / vnto y^• sepulcre / & sawe the stone taken awaye from y^• toumbe. Then she ranne / & came to Simon Peter & to the other disciple whome Iesus loved / and sayde vnto them. The y have taken awaye the Lorde out of the toumbe / & we cannot tell where they ha¦ve layde him. Peter went forth & that other

disciple / & came vnto the sepulcre. They ran∣ne bothe to gether / and that other disciple dyd out runne Peter / & came fyrst to the sepulcre. And he stouped doune & sawe the lynnen clo∣thes lyinge / yet wēt he not in. Then came Si¦mon Peter folowynge him / & went into y^• se∣pulcre / & [ B] sawe the lynnen clothes lye / and the napkyn that was aboute his heed / not lyinge with the lynnen clothe / but wrapped togeder in a place by it selfe. Then went in also that other disciple which came fyrst to the sepul∣cre / and he sawe and beleved. For as yet they knew not the scriptures / that he shuld ryse agayne from deeth. ✚ And the disciples wēt awaye agayne vnto their awne home.

✚ Mary stode with out at the sepulcre we∣pynge.* 1.139 And as she wept / she bowed her selfe [ C] into the sepulcre & sawe two angels in whyte sittyng / the one at the heed & the other at the fete / where they had layde the body of Iesus. And they sayde vnto her: woman why wepest thou? She sayde vnto thē: For they have ta∣ken awaye my lorde / & I wote not where they have layde him. When she had thus sayde / she turned her selfe backe & sawe Iesus ston∣dynge / & knewe not that it was Iesus. Iesus sayde vnto her: woman why wepest thou? Whom sekest thou? She supposynge that he had bene the gardener / sayde vnto him. Syr yf [ D] thou have borne him hēce tell me where thou hast layde him / that I maye fet him. Iesus sayde vnto her: Mary. She turned her selfe / and sayde vnto him: Rabboni / which is to

saye master. Iesus sayde vnto her / touche me not / for I am not yet ascended to my father. But goo to my brethren and saye vnto them / I ascende vnto my father and youre father to: my god & youre god. Mary Magdalene came & tolde the disciples y^t she had sene the lorde / & y^t he had spoken soche thinges vnto her. ⊢

✚ The same daye at nyght / which was the [ E] * 1.140 morowe after y^e saboth daye / when the dores were shut / where the disciples were assembled to geder for feare of the Iewes / came Iesus & stode in the myddes / & sayd to thē: peace be with you. And when he had so sayde / he she∣wed vnto them his hondes / & his syde. Then were the disciples glad when they sawe the Lorde. Then sayde Iesus to them agayne: pea¦ce be with you. As my father sent me / even so sende I you. And when he had sayde that / he brethed on them and sayde vnto thē: Receave y^e holy * 1.141 goost. Whosoevers synnes ye remyt they are remitted vnto thē. And whosoevers synnes ye retayne / they are retayned. ⊢

✚ But Thomas one of y^e twelve / called Di∣dymus [ F] / was not with thē when Iesus came. The other disciples sayd vnto him: we have sene y^e lorde. And he sayde vnto thē: except I se in his hondes the prent of the nayles / & put my fynger in the holes of the nayles / & thrust my honde into his syde / I will not beleve.

And after .viii. dayes agayne / his disciples were with in / & Thomas with them. Then came Iesus when the dores were shut / & stode in the myddes and sayde: peace be with you.

After that sayde he to Thomas: bringe thy [ G] fynger hether / and se my hondes / & bringe thy honde & thrust it into my syde / & be not fayth∣lesse / but belevynge. Thomas answered & say¦de vnto him: my Lorde / & my God. Iesus say∣de vnto him. Thomas / because thou hast sene me / therfore thou belevest: Happy are they that have not sene / and yet beleve.

And many other signes dyd Iesus in the presence of his disciples / which are not writ∣ten in this boke. These are written that ye myght beleve / that Iesus is Christ the sonne of God / & that in belevynge ye myght have ly¦fe thorowe his name. ⊢

¶ The .xxi. Cha. ✚

AFter that Iesus shewed him selfe agay¦ne [ A] / at the see of Tyberias. And on this wyse shewed he him selfe. There were to geder Simon Peter & Thomas / which is called Didym••s: and Nathanael of Cana a citie of Galile / and the sonnes of Zebedei / & two other of the disciples. Simon Peter say¦de vnto them: I goo a fysshynge. They sayde vnto him: we also will goo with the. They wēt their waye & entred into a shippe strayght [ C] waye / and that nyght caught they nothinge. But when the mornynge was now come / Ie∣sus stode on the shore: neverthelesse the disci∣ples knewe not y^t it was Iesus. Iesus sayde vnto thē: syrs / have ye eny meate? They ans∣wered him / no. And he sayde vnto them: cast out y^e net on the ryght syde of the ship / and ye shall fynde. They cast out / & anōne they were not able to drawe it for y^e multitude of fysshes

Then sayde the disciple whom Iesus lo∣ved / vnto Peter: It is the Lorde. When Si∣mon Peter hearde / that it was y^e lorde / he gyr∣de his mantell to him (for he was naked) and sprange into the see. The other disciples ca∣me by ship: for they were not farre from lon∣de / but as it were two hondred cubites / & they drewe the net with fysshes. Assone as they we¦re come to londe / they sawe hoo•• coles & fys∣she layd ther on / and breed. Iesus sayde vnto them: bringe of the fysshe which ye have now caught. Simon Peter stepped forthe and dre∣we the net to londe full of greate fysshes / an hondred and .liii. And for all ther were so ma∣ny / yet was not the net broken. Iesus sayde vnto them: come and dyne. And none of the disciples durste axe him: what arte thou? For they knewe that it was the lorde. Iesus then came and toke breed / & gave them / & fys∣she lykwyse. And this is now the thyrde ty∣me that Iesus appered to his disciples / after that he was rysen agayne from deeth. ⊢

When they had dyned / Iesus sayde to Si∣mon [ D] Peter: Simon Ioāna / lovest thou me mo¦re then these? He sayde vnto him: ye Lorde / thou knowest / that I love the. He sayde vnto him: fede my * 1.142 lambes. He sayde to him agay¦ne the seconde tyme: Simō Ioāna / lovest thou me? He sayde vnto him: ye lorde thou knowest that I love y^•. He sayde vnto him: fede my she¦pe. He sayde vnto him y^• thyrde tyme: Simon Ioanna / lovest thou me? And Peter sorowed because he sayde to him y^• thyrde tyme / lovest

thou me / and sayde vnto him: Lorde / thou kno¦west all thing{is} / thou knowest that I love the. Iesus sayde vnto him: fede my shepe. [ E]

Verely verely I saye vnto the / when thou wast yonge / thou gerdedst thy selfe / and wal∣kedst whyther thou woldest: but when thou arte olde / thou shalt stretche forthe thy hon∣des / & another shall gyrde y^• / & leade the why¦ther* 1.143 thou woldest not. That spake he signi∣fyinge by what deeth he shuld glorify God.

And whē he had sayde thus / he sayd to him ✚ folowe me. Peter turned about & sawe that disciple whō Iesus loved folowynge: which also lened on his brest at supper & sayde: Lor∣de which is he y^t shall betraye the? When Pe¦ter sawe him / he sayde to Iesus: Lorde what shall he here do? Iesus sayd vnto him / Yf I will have him to tary tyll I come / what is [ F] that to the? folowe thou me. Then went this sayinge a broode amonge the brethren / that that disciple shulde not dye. Yet Iesus sayde not to him / he shall not dye: but yf I will that he tary tyll I come / what is that to the? The same disciple is he / which testifieth of these thinges / & wrote these thinges. And we kno∣we / that his testimony is true. ✚ There are also many other thinges which Iesus dyd: the which yf they shuld be written every won I suppose the worlde coulde not cōtayne the bokes that shuld be written.

¶ Here endeth the Gospell of Saynct Iohn.

Notes

• * 1.1

  (Awne) is his aw¦ne people
• * 1.2

  Fayth. maketh. vs y^• son∣nes of god. mat. j. c luc. ij. d.
• * 1.3

  Iohn ba∣re witnes
• * 1.4

  (Grace) all grace: & all that is pleasa¦unt in the sight of god / is ge¦uē vs for Christes sake only: euen oute of the ful¦nes & abo¦undaunce of the fa∣uoure th∣at he rece¦aueth with his father.
• * 1.5

  voyce. that is: I am that I preache I am sent to proue you synn∣ners & to crye on y∣ou to amē¦de that ye maye rece¦aue Chr∣ist & his grace.
• * 1.6

  Lambe.
• * 1.7

  mat. ijj. d. Mar. j. b. luc. iij. d.
• * 1.8

  Andrew. Peter.
• * 1.9

  Philip. Nathana¦el.
• * 1.10

  gen. xlix deu. xviij esa. xl. c. & .xlv. b. hie. xxiij Ezechi. xxxiiij. & xxxvij dan. ix. f.
• * 1.11

  A maria∣ge in Ca∣na of Ga¦lile.
• * 1.12

  Water into wy∣ne.
• * 1.13

  Sellers in the tē∣ple are cast out.
• * 1.14

  Psalmo lxviij.
• * 1.15

  mathew. xx••▪ & xxvij. marke .xiiij. f and .xv. ••
• * 1.16

  psal. iij. b. & lvj. c.
• * 1.17

  Nicode∣mus.
• * 1.18

  num. xxi
• * 1.19

  Serpent.
• * 1.20

  Fayth.
• * 1.21

  j. Io. iiij.
• * 1.22

  Condem∣nacion.
• * 1.23

  rom. iij. ••.
• * 1.24

  Measure j. Io. v. b.
• * 1.25

  ge. xlviij
• * 1.26

  The wo∣man of Samari e
• * 1.27

  How & where god will be worsh¦ypped.
• * 1.28

  ij. co. iij. d
• * 1.29

  mathew .xiij. a. mar. vj. a ln••. iiij. c. mat. iiij. b
• * 1.30

  mar. i. d. luc. iiij. c.
• * 1.31

  Ruler.
• * 1.32

  The gre¦ke hath shepe hou¦se: a place where th∣ey kylled the beest∣es that were san∣tified.
• * 1.33

  The mā that laye xxxviii. yere by y^e pole is he¦aled.
• * 1.34

  The sab∣oth is bro¦ken.
• * 1.35

  Christ is iudge over all.
• * 1.36

  Fayth.
• * 1.37

  mathew .xxv.
• * 1.38

  Resurrec cion.
• * 1.39

  He that seketh not his owne will / iud∣geth truli
• * 1.40

  mat. iij. d.
• * 1.41

  mat. iij. b
• * 1.42

  Searche the scrip∣ture.
• * 1.43

  He that seketh ho¦noure can not bele∣ue.
• * 1.44

  Moses.
• * 1.45

  mathew .xiiij. d. mar. v̄j. e luc. ix. b.
• * 1.46

  Fyue lo∣ves & .ii. fysshes
• * 1.47

  mat. xiiij mar. vj. f
• * 1.48

  (sealed) that is: he hat•• put his marke of the ho∣lie ghoost on him which te∣stifieth with mi∣racles what he is.
• * 1.49

  exo. x vj. nu. xi. ••. ps. lxx vij sa. x vj.
• * 1.50

  eccle. xxiiij.
• * 1.51

  Mat. xiij.
• * 1.52

  esa. xx vj hie. xxxj
• * 1.53

  ex. xvj. a.
• * 1.54

  mat. xvj.
• * 1.55

  He that loueth the will of god to ke∣pe his la∣we: the sa∣me vnder¦stondeth the doc∣trine. Prayse.
• * 1.56

  leu. xij. a
• * 1.57

  Saboth.
• * 1.58

  deu. j. c
• * 1.59

  ij. pa. xvj
• * 1.60

  mic. v. a. mat. ij. a.
• * 1.61

  Rulers & pharises beleve not.
• * 1.62

  leui. xxia
• * 1.63

  deu. xvij.
• * 1.64

  Light .j. ioh. j. b.
• * 1.65

  deu. xix v mathew. x viij. •• ij. co. xiij. heb. x. c.
• * 1.66

  Christ is his doc∣trine. rom. iij. d.
• * 1.67

  rom. vj. c. ij. ye. ij. d.
• * 1.68

  Abrahā.
• * 1.69

  j. io. iij. b.
• * 1.70

  The de∣vell.
• * 1.71

  Thou art a Sa∣maritane & hast the deuell.
• * 1.72

  Nyght: when the true kno∣wledge of Christ / how he onlie iusti¦fieth / is loste: then can nomā worke a good wor¦ke in the sight of god / how gloriouse soeuer his wor∣kes apere
• * 1.73

  The po∣le of Si∣loe.
• * 1.74

  The sa∣both is broken.
• * 1.75

  Dore.
• * 1.76

  Christ is the dore.
• * 1.77

  Shepe∣herde.
• * 1.78

  esa. xl. c. ezechie. xxxiiij. &. xxviij.
• * 1.79

  ezechiel. xxvij.
• * 1.80

  j. macha. iiij.
• * 1.81

  esa. xliiij
• * 1.82

  psa. lxxxj
• * 1.83

  Lazarus.
• * 1.84

  mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij
• * 1.85

  Marie.
• * 1.86

  Hos an∣na.
• * 1.87

  mat. xxi. mar. xiiij luc. xix. f zach. ix. b
• * 1.88

  mar. x. d. and .xvj. mar. viij.
• * 1.89

  luc. i••. c. ••. xvij. g
• * 1.90

  psal. cix. b. & cxvj a. ••sa. xlc Eze••••••iel xxxij.
• * 1.91

  Light. Darcke∣nes.
• * 1.92

  esa. liij. a. tom. x. d. esa. vj. c. mar. xiij. mar. iiij. b luc. viij. b actu. xxviij. rom. xj. b
• * 1.93

  Light.
• * 1.94

  mathew .xxvj. a. lu. xxxij mar. xiiij
• * 1.95

  Iesus wassheth his disci∣ples fete.
• * 1.96

  mar. x. ••. luce. vj. f
• * 1.97

  psal. xl. c
• * 1.98

  mat. x. d. luc. x. c.
• * 1.99

  mathew .xxvj. b. mar. xiiij lu. xxij. b
• * 1.100

  New cō∣maunde∣ment. j. io. ij. b.
• * 1.101

  Chri∣stes disci¦ple is kno¦wen. mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij luc. xxij.
• * 1.102

  A promi∣se mat. vij. a mar. xi. c * By the kepynge the com∣maunde∣mentes is a mankno men that beloueth God
• * 1.103

  Who lo∣ueth christ
• * 1.104

  Who ke∣peth chri¦stes sayen¦ges.
• * 1.105

  Peace
• * 1.106

  Vyne.
• * 1.107

  mat. xxj. j. io. iij. d.
• * 1.108

  Covena∣unt.
• * 1.109

  To ke∣pe the la∣we ma∣keth vs contynew in the lo∣ue & fauo¦ure of Christ. ephe. v. a i. thes. iiij j. io. iij. b. and .iiij. d
• * 1.110

  j. io. iij. d. and .iiij. d.
• * 1.111

  Mar. x. c. Mathew .xxiij.
• * 1.112

  ps••••. xxiii••.
• * 1.113

  luke .xxiiii. g
• * 1.114

  mathew .xxiiij.
• * 1.115

  Synne.
• * 1.116

  Righte∣ousnes Iudge∣ment
• * 1.117

  mat. vii. a and. xxj c mar. xj. c su. xi. d. ••••co. i. a.
• * 1.118

  Promise.
• * 1.119

  mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij
• * 1.120

  Eternall lyfe.
• * 1.121

  psal. c. viij. b.
• * 1.122

  mathew xxvj .c. mar. xiiij. c. luke .xxij. d.
• * 1.123

  mathew xxvj. c. marke .xiiij. c. lu. xxij. c
• * 1.124

  Mal∣chas.
• * 1.125

  mathew .xxvj. mar. xiiij luc. xxi▪f
• * 1.126

  ma. xxvj mar. xiiij luc. xxij.
• * 1.127

  mathew .xxvij. mar. xv a lu. xxij g
• * 1.128

  mat. xx. c
• * 1.129

  mathew xxvij. mar. xv b lu. xxiij.
• * 1.130

  mat••e. xxvij. mar. xu b lu. xxij.
• * 1.131

  mathew .xxvij. mar. xv ••
• * 1.132

  mathew .xxvij. mar. xvb lu. xxiij••
• * 1.133

  mathew .xxvij. mar. xvb lu. xxiij.
• * 1.134

  psal. xx••.
• * 1.135

  psalmo. lxviii.
• * 1.136

  ••x••. xii. num. ix. d zacha. xii
• * 1.137

  mathew. x••vii. mar. xv. b luc. xxiii. ioa. iii. a.
• * 1.138

  matthew .xvi. a. ••u. xx iiii
• * 1.139

  mathew. xxviij marke .xvj. b.
• * 1.140

  mat. xxviij mar. xvic luke .xxviij. i. cor xv. a
• * 1.141

  here is payed that is promy¦sed. mat. xxj. A couena¦aunt vpō byndyng & low syn¦ge.
• * 1.142

  He lo∣neth Chri¦st that fe∣deth his lambes & shepe.
• * 1.143

  ij. ye. i. c